Rollo May Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.

  Rollo May

  Strong, Symphony, Mature Person

• 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.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Creativity, Using Your Talents

• 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 problem with perspective.

  Rollo May

  Distance, Self, Perspective

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.40, W. W. Norton & Company

• Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place. Community is where I can share my innermost thoughts, bring out the depths of my own feelings, and know they will be understood.

  Rollo May

  Communication, Community, Feelings

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

• All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

  Rollo May

  Meaningful, Artist, Feelings

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

• 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.

  Rollo May

  Motivation, Long, Anxiety

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

• When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

  Rollo May

  Flare Up, Mad, Feelings

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, Ch. 1: Introduction: Our Schizoid World, p. 31, 1969.

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