Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we… — Rollo May Copy Share
Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of… — Rollo May Copy Share
In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the… — Rollo May Copy Share
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves. — Rollo May Copy Share
Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. — Rollo May Copy Share
“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.” — Rollo May Copy Share
Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind… — Rollo May Copy Share
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him. — Rollo May Copy Share
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the… — Rollo May Copy Share
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other. — Rollo May Copy Share
We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly… — Rollo May Copy Share
