Rollo May Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

  Rollo May

  Character, Doe, Sooner Or Later

  Rollo May (1999). “Freedom and Destiny”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

• Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

  Rollo May

  Character, Responsibility, Hands

  Rollo May (1999). “Freedom and Destiny”, p.100, W. W. Norton & Company

• Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is thus more inclusive. But both symbol and myth have the same function psychologically; they are man's way of expressing the quintessence of his experience - his way of seeing his life, his self-image and his relations to the world of his fellow men and of nature - in a total figure which at the same moment carries the vital meaning of this experience.

  Rollo May

  Character, Men, Self

• Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.

  Rollo May

  Attitude, Character, Opportunity

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