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Rollo May Quotes

«Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.»
Author: Rollo May
«The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.»
«Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.»
«If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will have betrayed yourself»
Author: Rollo May | About: Ideas | Keywords: betrayed
«The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.»
«Depression is the inability to construct a future»
Author: Rollo May | About: Depression, Politics | Keywords: construct, depression, inability
«Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.»
«Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.»
«It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way»
Author: Rollo May | About: Habit | Keywords: ironic