Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
ROLLO MAYApathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
ROLLO MAYOne of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
ROLLO MAYDepression is the inability to construct a future.
ROLLO MAYThe hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly
ROLLO MAYCourage 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 MAYThere 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.
ROLLO MAYUnderstanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
ROLLO MAYCourage 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.
ROLLO MAYThere can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
ROLLO MAYThe creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
ROLLO MAYThe opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
ROLLO MAYIt is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
ROLLO MAYA mien which seems to say, “You are looking at somebody now.” For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
ROLLO MAYScience, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
ROLLO MAYCourage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
ROLLO MAYThe purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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