One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
ROLLO MAYCourage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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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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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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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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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One’s religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.
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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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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.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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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