Quote

One does not become fully human painlessly.

Rollo May

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
Reality
Become
Doe
Human
Humans
Painlessly
Fully

More quotes by Rollo May

Image
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
Rollo May
Image
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.
Rollo May
Image
Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
Rollo May
Image
We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.
Rollo May
Image
The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
Rollo May
Image
Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about.
Rollo May
Image
That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.
Rollo May
Image
A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.
Rollo May
Image
Creativity is a yearning for immortality
Rollo May
Image
Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is.
Rollo May
Image
The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.
Rollo May
Image
The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.
Rollo May
Image
There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
Rollo May
Image
Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.
Rollo May
Image
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
Rollo May
Image
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
Rollo May
Image
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
Rollo May
Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)
Rollo May
Image
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
Rollo May
Image
When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
Rollo May