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Rollo May Quotes

It is an obvious fact that when an age is torn loose from its moorings and everyone is to some degree thrown on his own, most people can take steps to find and realize themselves.

Rollo May

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 21, 1909 - October 22, 1994

Topics

Age People Find Realize Degree Own

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

Joao Lourenco

Rich Powerful Poor Cannot Punished

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

Jean Philippe Rameau

Singing Speech Common Origin Verse

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

Tony Campolo

Business Government People Legal Out

America faces very real challenges. The climate crisis, inequality, stagnant wages, student debt - the list goes on. Rather than address these serious problems, Trump uses hate-filled rhetoric to divide America by race, religion, and ancestry.

Tom Steyer

Religion Challenges Problems America

Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.

Mary Beard

Back Go Clever Military Same Idea

Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes.

Jose Canseco

Growth Best Me World Believe Doing

I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn't take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn't beating the system but reinforcing it.

Cherie Blair

Children Men Looking Back Game Back

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

Christina Aguilera

Love More First Two First Love Big

No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishness gave me that.

Brian Dennehy

Pain Me Think American Loss Artist

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

Bruce Springsteen

Living Telling Stories Ourselves

When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.

Suzanne Vega

Life Happy More Well Useful Than

Been trading up recently? You have, haven't you? You'll be squawking that you're too rational, too busy and too socially concerned for any of that. But go through the fridge - come to think of it, what about the fridge itself? I bet it's bigger than its predecessor.

Peter York

Busy Think You Go Up Bigger