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Experience Quotes by Rollo May
- Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
- 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…
- 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…
- Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is…
- 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…
- If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
- 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…
- What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
- When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks…
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama