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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Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go !
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
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.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Where's the rest of me ?
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Here's looking at you, kid.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Live life to the fullest.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Where there's life, there's hope.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.