A 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 MayThere is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
Rollo MayWhat if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
Rollo MayFinding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man
Rollo MayWhen I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." For this 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 May