Rollo MayIf you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. ✨ Rollo May (1994). The Courage to Create, p.12, W. W… ▶361Thought
Rollo MayWe express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being. ✨ Rollo May (1994). The Courage to Create, p.8, W. W. Norton & Company351Humanity
Rollo MayA myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. ✨ Rollo May (1991). The Cry for Myth, p.15, W. W.… ▶362LifeSadness
Rollo MayThere can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood. ✨ Rollo May… ▶363Sadness
Rollo MayWhat 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 … ▶342HumanityLoveThought
Rollo MayWhen you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that … ▶353Time
Rollo MayEvil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other. ✨ Rollo May (1985). My Quest for Beau… ▶364Humanity
Rollo MayIt requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play th… ▶364Politics
Rollo MayReal freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.332Life
Rollo MayCourage 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… ▶332Death
Rollo MayFreedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. ✨ Rollo May (2009). Man's Search for Himself, p.119, W. W. Norton & Co… ▶343Reflection
Rollo MayWhatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or for… ▶377Thought
Rollo MayThe creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them. ✨ Rollo May (1994). The Courage to Create, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company… ▶366Humanity
Rollo MayOur age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destruc… ▶311LoveTime
Rollo MayCreativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.366Thought
Rollo MayIn order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.356Life
Rollo MaySymbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is thus more inclusive.… ▶356LifePhilosophyTime
Rollo MayOur thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of … ▶378Life
Rollo MayPoets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line. ✨ Rollo May (1994). The Courage to Create, p.69, W. W. Norton & Com… ▶367Life
Rollo MayIt requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play th… ▶378Truth
Rollo MayFreedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day. ✨ Rollo May (2009). Man's Search for Himself, p.12… ▶335Thought
Rollo MayPeople attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day. ✨ Rollo May (1994). The Courage to Create, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company357Humanity
Rollo MayDoes not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it? ✨ Rollo May (1999). Freedom and Destiny, p.100, … ▶368Politics
Rollo MayHate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. ✨ Rollo May (1969). Love and will335Love
Rollo MayCreativity 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 on… ▶324DeathHumanityLove
Rollo MayLove is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence. ✨ Rollo May Ph.D. (1953). Man's Search f… ▶369LoveTruth
Rollo MayTenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individua… ▶3710LoveReadingTime
Rollo MayMany people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all. ✨ Rollo May (2009). Man's Search for Himself, p.13, W. W. Norton & Compa… ▶336Humanity
Rollo MayHuman freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. ✨ Rollo May (1994). The Courage to Create, p.100, W. W. No… ▶358Humanity
Rollo MayIt is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. ✨ Rollo May (1991). The Cry for Myth, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company293Sadness
