Rollo May Quotes

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

Rollo May

• Response
• Stimulus

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Want
  • Goals

• South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • Literature
  • Prison

• Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, and get some bill from E-ZPass, or call and ask a question about E-ZPass, you're talking to a Xerox person.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • You
  • Question
  • Talking

• All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

  

  Bess Myerson
  • Life
  • Home
  • Mother

• Thank God for the gays. I don't know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Good
  • God
  • Gay

• No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society

  

  Irving Howe
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Space

• Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Law
  • Democracy
  • Matters

• If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.

  

  Vance Havner
  • City
  • Fire
  • Gold

• I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Experience
  • Parents
  • Daughter

• I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Trying
  • Football
  • Player

• Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Progress

• For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundreds of new rules will require an estimated 2,260,631 labor hours just for compliance. Those are hours that your local bank or credit union will spend dealing with some Washington bureaucrat instead of focusing on the needs of customers like you.

  

  Sean Duffy
  • Community
  • Hours
  • Labor

• People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• We are the result of the stimulus we receive.

  

  Alfredo Jaar
  • Result
  • Receive
  • Stimulus

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

  

  Rollo May
  • Response
  • Stimulus