Author: Rollo May

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Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence.

Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence.

- Rollo May

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

- Rollo May

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

- Rollo May

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

- Rollo May

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

- Rollo May

The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.

The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.

- Rollo May

The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.

The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.

- Rollo May

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

- Rollo May

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

- Rollo May

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