Rollo May Quotes

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• Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
• What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you…
• 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 of…
• Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new…
• All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
• Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center.
• Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.
• We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity…
• We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.
• The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry…
• Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
• Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
• What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has…
• The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct.…
• The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's…
• When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is…
• In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted…
• People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
• Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes,…
• There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship…

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