People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
~ Rollo May

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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
~ Rollo May

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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.
~ Rollo May

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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings.
~ Rollo May

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It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one’s inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom.
~ Rollo May

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
~ Rollo May

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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
~ Rollo May

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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
~ Rollo May

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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
~ Rollo May

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The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.
~ Rollo May

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