Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. — 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
Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People… — 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
