Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
ROLLO MAYForge in the smithy of your soul.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.
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