Rollo May Quotes

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.

I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. Love is a productive orientation for which it is essential that there be present at the same time: concern, responsibility, and respect for and knowledge of the object of the union.

We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love.

We must love one another or die

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.