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Rollo May Quotes about Life

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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

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”

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

Rollo May
Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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

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

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".

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.

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".

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