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 MAYApathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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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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Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One’s religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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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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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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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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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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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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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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