Rollo May Running Quotations

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs — not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.

It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.