Rollo May Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

  Rollo May

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

• Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Creativity, Using Your Talents

• Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

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  Maturity, Understanding, Age

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

• Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud , also brings back into the picture the understanding of man on the deeper and broader level man as the being who is human. It is based on the assumption that it is possible to have a science of man which does not fragmentize man and destroy his humanity at the same moment as it studies him. It unites science and ontology .

  Rollo May

  Men, Humanity, Understanding

  Rollo May (1994). “Existence”, p.36, Jason Aronson

• Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place. Community is where I can share my innermost thoughts, bring out the depths of my own feelings, and know they will be understood.

  Rollo May

  Communication, Community, Feelings

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

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