Self-love is not only necessary and good, it is a prerequisite for loving others. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves. — 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
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
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand… — 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
The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning. — 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
“Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I have long believed that love and will are interdependent and belong together. Both are conjunctive processes of being - a reaching… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The striking thing about love and will in our day is that, whereas in the past they were always held up to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant… — 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
“Eros is the drive for union and reproduction in the biological realm. Even in the birds and animals, we see the "desire… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence. — 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
“They showed considerable anxiety because they were in the process of loving beauty.” — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and… — 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
