Rollo May Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• 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

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  Love, Life, Disappointment

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

• 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.

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  Emotional, Goal, Joy

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

• Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

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  Beauty, Peace, Giving

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

• 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.

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  Courage, Creativity, Using Your Talents

• 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.

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  Courage, Creativity, Profound

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.35, 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.

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  Creativity, Artist, Creating

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

• There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.

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  Joy, Creation, Form

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

• Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

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  Believe, Creativity, Joy

• Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

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  Joy, Use, Effects

• The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

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  Ideas, Joy, Anxiety

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company

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