Courage 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 MAYTo believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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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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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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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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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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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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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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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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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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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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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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Good 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.
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