In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
Rollo MayWhat Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.
Rollo MayHumor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.
Rollo MayIn any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.
Rollo May