351 Quotes by Rollo May

They pursue meaninglessness until they force it to mean.

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

The personal freedom to think & feel & speak authentically & to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

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.

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

Whatever 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 fortuitous our creations may be.

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.