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.
ROLLO MAYThe 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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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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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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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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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 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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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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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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