Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“For death is always in the shadow of the delight of love. In faint adumbration there is present the dread, haunting question,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
To be open to creativity, one needs the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“They showed considerable anxiety because they were in the process of loving beauty.” — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.” — Rollo May Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
