Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
ROLLO MAYThe ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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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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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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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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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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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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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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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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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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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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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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