Rollo May Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

  Rollo May

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

• When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

  Rollo May

  Life, Falling In Love, Being In Love

  "Love & Will".

• 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

  Rollo May

  Love, Life, Disappointment

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

• People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

  Rollo May

  Life, People, Decision

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Rollo May

  Life, Good Life, Survival

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

• It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

  Rollo May

  Life, Sensitive Person, Intuition

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.76, W. W. Norton & Company

• Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

  Rollo May

  Life, Being In Love, Love Is

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

• Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its miracle and mystery has suddenly produced. Love is the answer, we sing. Our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic - albeit desperate - conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros.

  Rollo May

  Life, Falling In Love, Love Is

  "Love & Will".

• Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

  Rollo May

  Love, Life, Funny Relationship

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May (p. 313), 1969.

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