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Category: Rollo May

Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about.

Life, Survival, Good Life

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.

Life, Experience, Joy

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.

creativity, passion

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

self, self, knowledge

In my clinical experience the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem a way of standing off and looking at one’s problems with perspective.

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

Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is.

indifference, apathy

If the will remains in protest it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

But attempts to evade anxiety are not only doomed to failure. In running from anxiety you lose your most precious opportunities for the emergence of yourself, and for your education as s human being.