All Rollo May Quotes
- The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. Conformity
- If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Betrayed
- Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. Absence
- It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. Beings
- Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being,… Adult
- Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is… Accompanies
- Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. Apathy
- Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. Care
- It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom.… Battle
- Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. Capacity
- Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. Capacity
- Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all. All
- The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line. Assembly
- In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. Alone
- Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one… Actualization
- Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of… Community
- Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person… Among
- A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Existence
- There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as… Contemporary
- Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory… Any
- One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him. Able
- When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship. Always Dependent
- Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways… Artistic
- Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips… Art
- It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. Begin