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.
ROLLO MAYIf you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
More Rollo May Quotes
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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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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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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence/
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