All Rollo May Quotes
- The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of… Always Exists
- To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an… All
- It is infinitely safer to know that the man at the top has his doubts, as you and I have ours, yet has the courage… Ahead
- The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out. Inspirational
- Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations. Awareness
- The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different… Able
- If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself. Admit
- Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension… Anxiety
- Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever… Always Push
- This is hard for parents to say genuinely. Funny
- Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. Arise
- Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they,… Deeds
- Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity,… Anxiety
- Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. Artist
- Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power. Called
- The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision. Actualizing
- There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the… Better
- The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what… Alive
- Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do,… Alternate
- Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person… Answers
- Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become… Consciousness
- It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense… Artist
- Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge. Emerge
- Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. Communication
- Depression is the inability to construct a future. Construct