Rollo May
Rollo May
Rollo Reece Maywas an American existential psychologist and author of the influential book Love and Will. He is often associated with humanistic psychology, existentialist philosophy and, alongside Viktor Frankl, was a major proponent of existential psychotherapy. The philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich was a close friend who had a significant influence on his work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 April 1909
CountryUnited States of America
love inspirational passion
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 profound creative
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.
struggle creativity artist
All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
creativity encounters understood
Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center.
creativity definitions born
Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.
inspiration heart blood
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, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
commitment creativity dedication
We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.
creativity creating sequels
We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.
character responsibility hands
Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
character doe sooner-or-later
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
motivation long anxiety
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
courage simple maturity
In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of her morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.
care matter doe
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
courage creative patterns
Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.