American - Psychologist | April 21, 1909 - October 22, 1994
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
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
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It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.
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Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.
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Freedom is the possibility of development, of enhancement of one's life - or the possibility of withdrawing, shutting oneself up, denying and stultifying one's growth.
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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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The emergence of the Atomic Age brought the previously inchoate and 'free-floating' anxiety of many people into sharp focus.
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