Author: Rollo May

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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

I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.

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

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

Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

- Rollo May

Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.

Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.

- Rollo May

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

- 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 opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

- Rollo May

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

- Rollo May

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