black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Rollo May

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
ROLLO MAY

Courage Inescapable Intimacy Require Risk
One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
ROLLO MAY

Central Fulfill Life Need One Own Potential
This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
ROLLO MAY

Heroism Identity Important Make Mold Reflect Sense
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
ROLLO MAY

Being Faster Fiercely Grasp Habit Human Ironic Lost More Old Our Way Research Statistic Technical
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
ROLLO MAY

Acorn Automatic Become Commitment Growth Mean Necessary Oak
The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
ROLLO MAY

Certain Come Evil Good One Ourselves Relationship Thing Unaffected
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
ROLLO MAY

Anxiety Conflict Constructive Going Long Ourselves Remind Signify So Solution Well
The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
ROLLO MAY

Constructive Deal First Learn Live Moment Necesaaty Present Reality Thing Time
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
ROLLO MAY

Art Consciousness Creative Ecstasy Intensity Nobody Occvur Totally
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.
ROLLO MAY

Citizen Courage Enable Find Hero Ideal Necessary Order Own Society Wisdom
Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
ROLLO MAY

Confer Hand Possibility Power Responsibility Something
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
ROLLO MAY

Arise Between Creativity Limitation Spontaneously Tension
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
ROLLO MAY

Age Anxiety Aware Become Blessing Few Fierce Living One Ourselbeevs
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
ROLLO MAY

Against Around Defence Delight Good Tightly Truth Well Wound
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
ROLLO MAY

Being Conscious Creativity Encounter Human Intensively World
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
ROLLO MAY

Become Differentiate Experience Feeling Many Mature Nuance Passionate Person Strong

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Rollo May Quotes