So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
ROLLO MAYForge in the smithy of your soul.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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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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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
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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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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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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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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 amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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