black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

One does not become fully human painlessly.

Rollo May

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us?
ROLLO MAY

Courage Effect Inescapable Intimacy Know Outlet Relationship Require Risk
What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
ROLLO MAY

Anxiety Create Door Knock Make Mean Need Something Work
All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
ROLLO MAY

All Artist Ecraetive Life One People Some Struggle Succeeded Task Way
One does not become fully human painlessly.
ROLLO MAY

Become Does Human Not One Painlessly
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
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
ROLLO MAY

Care Come Good Life Physical Survival
Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
ROLLO MAY

History Jhuman Often Person Rebel Recall Saint Same
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

Accompany Emotion Fulfilling Goal Happiness Joy Life Nation Rather
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.
ROLLO MAY

Arm Country Courage Enable Function Heart Just Leg Mean One Physical Pump Same Stem Word
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
ROLLO MAY

Assumption Define Meaning Region
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
ROLLO MAY

Habit Human Being Ironic Lost Way
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
ROLLO MAY

Free People Purpose Pyschothraphy Set
I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
ROLLO MAY

Active Cure Heal Learn Myself Need Participate Process
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
ROLLO MAY

Courageous Creativity Encounter God Intense Neither Neurosis Product Simple Talent
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
ROLLO MAY

Attain Courage Deciosn Decision From Day Multitude People Require Worth
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
ROLLO MAY

Absence Ahead Capacity Courage Despair Move Rather Spite

One does not become fully human painlessly.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

One does not become fully human painlessly.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Rollo May Quotes