Rollo May

"To acknowledge our fear is the first step toward transcending it."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived."

"The highest form of love is to help someone become fully themselves."

"Consciousness is a burden, but it is also our greatest gift and responsibility."

"To be free is to be uncertain. To be certain is to be enslaved."

"The opposite of courage is not cowardice; it is conformity. Even a dead thing can go with the flow."

"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after you find it."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel a responsibility for the actions of others."

"The person who has no inner life is the slave of their surroundings."

"Hate is the other side of love. We hate most vehemently the things we have loved most deeply."

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

"The mature person is able to distinguish between his own shadow and the shadow of others."

"The difficulty is that we have a secret wish these days to be saved from freedom."

"We are dying from civilized cancers. We are as sick as we are alone."

"The goal of psychotherapy is not happiness. Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue."

"Everyone needs some form of rebellion to feel alive."

"Technique without vision is empty; vision without technique is merely a dream."

"Power is the ability to cause or prevent change."

"We are not condemned to repeat the errors of the past simply because we do not know them."

"The person who interprets one book a thousand ways is more powerful than one who interprets a thousand books one way."

"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all directions."

"Significance is not inherent in anything; it arises between a person and their world."

"In our day-to-day world, the important thing is not to be a success, but to find meaning."

"The ultimate test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of men and women it produces."

"All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the whole person."

"We human beings are at our best when we have something to fight against, to resist."

"The ability to empathize is the fundamental human gift. Without it, there would be no art, no culture, no civilization."

"In the long run, it is not just that survive but those who learn to adapt."

"Mature love is composed of friendship, passion, and commitment in equal measure."

"Responsibility is a fine thing, but its fruits are bitter if not seasoned with the salt of compassion."