"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death"
- Rollo May
About this Quote
This quote by Rollo May speaks to the importance of creativity in our lives. He suggests that imagination is not simply something that we experience in our young people and youth, yet something that we should nurture and grow throughout our lives. He emphasizes the importance of enthusiasm in creative thinking, recommending that it is insufficient to merely be innovative, but that we have to also have a passion for life that will bring us past our very own death. May suggests that imagination is a means to live past our very own death, to develop something that will outlive us as well as continue to bring happiness and meaning to the world. He urges us to accept our creative thinking and also to use it to develop something that will survive on after us.
This quote is written / told by Rollo May between April 21, 1909 and October 22, 1994. He/she was a famous Psychologist from USA.
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