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 MayEveryone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.
Rollo MayIf you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo MayA myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning of existence is only what we put into life by our own individual fortitude, as Sartre would hold, or whether there is a meaning we need to discover, as Kierkegaard would state, the result is the same: myths are our way of finding this meaning and significance.
Rollo MayThe acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
Rollo May