Rollo May

"The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity."

"Freedom is the capacity to pause between stimulus and response and in that pause, to choose."

"Creativity is the birth of new forms."

"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or controlling, but in my capacity to cope with the world as it is."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel them vibrate in every motion."

"Man can endure almost anything if he can believe that there is some meaning in it."

"Anxiety is the experience of being alive."

"Dreams are the language of God."

"If I cannot change my circumstances, I can change my attitudes."

"The ultimate source of power is freedom; and freedom is synonymous with choice."

"Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."

"Love is not just something that happens to you. You have to participate in it."

"The fundamental question is not whether it is ingenious or efficient, the fundamental question is whether it is right."

"Our culture is one of the first in history to define people by what they own rather than by who they are."

"Truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

"Happiness comes from the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, and to be needed."

"The human being needs meaning. Life without meaning is an intolerable existence."

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

"Beauty is the only reality in a world of infinite mystery."

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."

"The opposite of love is not hate but indifference."

"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."

"Every person has a history. Every person has his own point of view."

"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."

"The greatest source of power is the ability to choose."

"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values."

"Existential anxiety is the price we pay for freedom."

"Art is the language of the soul."

"Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue."

"The problem is not that we are aggressive; it is that we are not sufficiently aggressive toward problems that matter."