Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
ROLLO MAYDepression is the inability to construct a future.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Vanity and narcissism – the compulsive need to be admired and praised – undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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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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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.
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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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