black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

Rollo May

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
ROLLO MAY

Authentically Conscious Distinguish Doing Feel Freedom Think Human Personal Quality Speak
All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
ROLLO MAY

Artist Brush Communicating Feeling Like Meaningful Paint Share Something Way World
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
ROLLO MAY

Beauty Experience Give Joy Peace Sense Simultaneously
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
ROLLO MAY

Confuse Dependence Fact Generally Love Point
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
ROLLO MAY

Being Conscious Creativity Encounter Human Intensively World
People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
ROLLO MAY

Become Change Dangerous People Seat Too Way
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
Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One’s religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.
ROLLO MAY

Attitude Concern Condition Die Individual Life Point Religion Ultimate
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.
ROLLO MAY

Being Brief Essence Exist Human Moment Planet Spinning
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
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
So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
ROLLO MAY

Courage Fascimile Possible Psychologivcal Value Virtue
A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
ROLLO MAY

Anxiety Extent Mert Person Stronger Threat Value
To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
ROLLO MAY

Believe ContrAction Doubt Fully Greater Moment Presuppose Respect Same
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
ROLLO MAY

Courage Inescapable Intimacy Require Risk
Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
ROLLO MAY

Achievement Automatically Bound Come Day E Ach Freedom Gain Single

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Rollo May Quotes