Rollo May Is Quotations

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.

Self-love is not only necessary and good, it is a prerequisite for loving others.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks but in our whole experience of what we are doing in the world. Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects ... 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.

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

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.