"We cannot will to have insights. We cannot……" — Rollo May
"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 of dedication and commitment."
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154 Quotes by Rollo May
Rollo May has 154 quotes on this site.
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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you…
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Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for…
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Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form…
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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in…
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Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center.
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Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of…
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We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.
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The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place…
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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity…
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What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as…
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this…
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People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and…
— Tom Arnold
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I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of…
— Christian Bale
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory.…
— Evan Bayh
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Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
— Bob Beauprez
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we…
— Candice Bergen
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national…
— Wendell Berry
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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