The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
~ Rollo May

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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
~ Rollo May

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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
~ Rollo May

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Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one’s say, or to speak honestly to a friend truths that go deep and hurt — these require self-affirmation, self-assertion, and even at times aggression.
~ Rollo May

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It is interesting that the term mystic is used in this derogatory sense to mean anything we cannot segmentize and count. The odd belief prevails in our culture that a thing or experience is not real if we cannot make it mathematical, and that somehow it must be real if we can reduce it to numbers.
~ Rollo May

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Communication leads to community — that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking.
~ Rollo May

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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
~ Rollo May

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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
~ Rollo May

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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
~ Rollo May

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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
~ Rollo May

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