351 Quotes by Rollo May

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

It 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 the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.

We receive love roughly in proportion to our capacity to love.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Symbols 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. But both symbol and myth have the same function psychologically; they are man's way of expressing the quintessence of his experience - his way of seeing his life, his self-image and his relations to the world of his fellow men and of nature - in a total figure which at the same moment carries the vital meaning of this experience.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.