One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it. Rollo May More Quotes by Rollo May More Quotes From Rollo May The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on. Rollo May The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt. Rollo May Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay. Rollo May loneliness acceptance power feelings Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities. Rollo May inner possibilities signs problems Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone. Rollo May alone being-alone loneliness positive Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?' Rollo May who-am-i question personal identity Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other. Rollo May human human-dignity dignity freedom The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and parcel of intellectual integrity. But I do urge that we not let the drive for honesty put blinders on us and cut off our range of vision so that we miss the very thing we set out the understand - namely, the living human being. Rollo May vision honesty truth integrity I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities. Rollo May free experience believe people Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness. Rollo May human need own being Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots. Rollo May nation robots freedom political Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness. Rollo May something care matter relationship While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers. Rollo May laugh boredom emptiness people
