Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
ROLLO MAYIntimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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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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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
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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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To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive – to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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