All Rollo May Quotes
- Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously. Beauty
- 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… Anxiety
- 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… Aim
- 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… Courage
- All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life. All
- Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center. Act
- Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get. Born
- 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… Commitment
- We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being. Creating
- 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… Awe
- Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness. Care
- Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence. Capacity
- 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… Absence
- 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.… Acorn
- 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… All
- 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… Absorbed
- 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… Block
- People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day. Attain
- 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,… Aspiration
- 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… Answering
- Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are… Arise
- What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning. Beginning
- One does not become fully human painlessly. Become Fully
- It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body… Amazing
- It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible. Anxiety