Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us?
ROLLO MAYA person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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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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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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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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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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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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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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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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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
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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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