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.
ROLLO MAYIt is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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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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The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly
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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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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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