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
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. — 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
The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are. — 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
All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will… — 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
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
Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering… — 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
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
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.… — 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
