All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
ROLLO MAYAnxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
More Rollo May Quotes
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.
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Vanity and narcissism – the compulsive need to be admired and praised – undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
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The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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