Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

- Rollo May

The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust of the human mind, the mind which ma…

- Rollo May

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

- Rollo May

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

- Rollo May

One does not become fully human painlessly.

- Rollo May

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

- Rollo May

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

- Rollo May

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

- Rollo May

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

- Rollo May