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
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
... 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
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
Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when… — 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
The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea… — 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
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
