It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
ROLLO MAYGood 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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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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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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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 opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
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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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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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