A Quote by Rollo May

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

Rollo May

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Rollo May
American - Psychologist
April 21, 1909 - October 22, 1994

[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.

Oprah Winfrey

Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

Robert Dallek

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

Ram Dass

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

Plato

The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God's gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one's self to God's Way.

Hildegard of Bingen

Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage.

Lionel Shriver

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.

Ram Dass

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

Arianna Huffington

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

Arianna Huffington

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Terry Pratchett

History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.

Angela Merkel

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

Edgar S. Brightman

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

Edgar Lee Masters

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

Ray Bradbury

That there is as yet no drug for immortality - or, for that matter, for muscle growth in the infirm - does not mean that immortality is theoretically or even technically impossible.

Tom Junod

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

Rabindranath Tagore

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