Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
ROLLO MAYCourage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
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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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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
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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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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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