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 MAYJoy, 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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A mien which seems to say, “You are looking at somebody now.” For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
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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 is saying.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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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.
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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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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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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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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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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.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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