Rollo May

Rollo May

"The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality."
46 Quotes
"The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality."
Rollo May The Courage to Create
"Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line."
Rollo May The Courage to Create
"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."
Rollo May
"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it."
Rollo May The Cry for Myth
"“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”"
Rollo May
"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight."
Rollo May
"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves."
Rollo May
"Care is a state in which something does matter it is the source of human tenderness."
Rollo May
"The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt."
Rollo May
"Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about."
Rollo May
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself."
Rollo May
"Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."
Rollo May
"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. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle."
Rollo May
"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."
Rollo May
"Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about."
Rollo May
"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 based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity."
Rollo May
"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, which is a passion to live beyond one's death."
Rollo May
"The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively."
Rollo May
"I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell."
Rollo May
"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 in his own powers."
Rollo May
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