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 Copy Share Image
All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as… — 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
