rollo may

“ Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. ”

“ Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. ”

“ Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. ”

“ One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him. ”

“ Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. ”

“ It is the capacity to 'dream dreams and see visions'. ”

“ To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before ”

“ Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose. ”

“ Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. ”

“ Creativity 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 one's death. ”