People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
ROLLO MAYUnderstanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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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 world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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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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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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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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