black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

Rollo May

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 MAY

Courage Effect Inescapable Intimacy Know Outlet Relationship Require Risk
Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
ROLLO MAY

Add Apathy Cowardice Long Run
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.
ROLLO MAY

Anything Effective Feel Live Most People Powerless
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
ROLLO MAY

Make Myth Sense Senseless Way World
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
ROLLO MAY

Against Capacity Confound Counterfeited Cover Element Fight However Injustice
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
ROLLO MAY

Construct Depression Future Inability
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
ROLLO MAY

Absence Ahead Capacity Courage Despair Move Rather Spite
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
ROLLO MAY

Being Courage Make Necessary Possible
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
ROLLO MAY

Confuse Dependence Fact Generally Love Point
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.
ROLLO MAY

Between Consciously Dynamic Hand Insight One Other Person Perspective Some Struggle Think
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
ROLLO MAY

Ability Choose Freedom Pause Real Response Stimulus
So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
ROLLO MAY

Courage Fascimile Possible Psychologivcal Value Virtue
A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
ROLLO MAY

Anxiety Extent Mert Person Stronger Threat Value
One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
ROLLO MAY

Forget Have Irresponsible One Easiest Power Way
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.
ROLLO MAY

Against Being Culture Every Human Me Must Point Say Stand
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.
ROLLO MAY

Genius Important Invention Need Person Society Strength Supermen Themselves

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Rollo May Quotes