Rollo May Quotes

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, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

~ Rollo May Quotes from The Courage to Create
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...courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

~ Rollo May Quotes
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What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

~ Rollo May Quotes
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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.

~ Rollo May Quotes
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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.

~ Rollo May Quotes
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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.

~ Rollo May Quotes
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Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men."

~ Rollo May Quotes
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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.

~ Rollo May Quotes from Man's Search for Himself
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Every organism has one and only one central need in life, to fulfill its own potentialities.

~ Rollo May Quotes from Man's Search for Himself
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Say YES to life. Participate. Move. Act. Write. Read. Sign up. Take a stand. Or do whatever it takes for you. Get involved in the process. As Rollo May wrote in Man’s Search for Himself: “Every organism has one and only one central need in life, to fulfill its own potentialities.”

~ Susan Jeffers Quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway
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