Anxiety Quotes by Rollo May

“They showed considerable anxiety because they were in the process of loving beauty.”

— Rollo May

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

— Rollo May

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

— Rollo May

“Self-inflation and conceit are generally the external signs of inner emptiness and self-doubt; a show of pride is one of the most…

— Rollo May

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive…

— Rollo May

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

— Rollo May

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea…

— Rollo May

The emergence of the Atomic Age brought the previously inchoate and 'free-floating' anxiety of many people into sharp focus.

— Rollo May

“Anxiety, the other characteristic of modern man, is even more basic than emptiness and loneliness. For being “hollow” and lonely would not…

— Rollo May

Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in…

— Rollo May

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is…

— Rollo May

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

Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and…

— Rollo May

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the…

— Rollo May

We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety,…

— Rollo May

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move…

— Rollo May

... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast…

— Rollo May

When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the…

— Rollo May

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's…

— Rollo May

In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity…

— Rollo May

“Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self, as well as creating in all the…

— Rollo May

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as…

— Rollo May