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When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

— Rollo May Love and Will (1969)

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

Man’s Search for Himself (1953)

The daimonic needs to be directed and channeled. Here is where human consciousness becomes so important.

Love and Will (1969)

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

Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967)

Now it is no longer a matter of deciding what to do, but of deciding how to decide.

Love and Will (1969)

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Love and Will (1969)

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