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Life Quotes by Rollo May
- All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
- 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.
- 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…
- When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as…
- A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning…
- Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his…
- 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…
- Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that…
- We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but…
- Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
- 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…
- Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
- To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy,…
- Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all…
- One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
- Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
- When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of…
- 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 Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle