Rollo May Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• 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.

  Rollo May

  Emotional, Goal, Joy

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

• ... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Artist, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.45, W. W. Norton & Company

• Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.

  Rollo May

  Emotion, Reason, Persons

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.49, W. W. Norton & Company

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