Rollo May
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
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 whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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Stella ! Hey, Stella !
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Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
I am the captain of my soul.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
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Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
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The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Happy wife, happy life.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Carpe diem.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Have you checked the children lately ?
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
I like to watch.
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The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
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Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
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The ready back gets all the loads.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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I'm Multi-Dimensional !
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True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
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The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
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It is always your next move.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
Procrastination is the thief of time.