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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What a dump.
Security is a kind of death.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
There's no place like home.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Slow but steady wins the race.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Death is something not only mysterious but a great act of purgation. That which continues in a repetitive pattern is degeneration. The pattern may vary according to country, according to climate, according to circumstance, but it is a pattern. Moving in any pattern brings about a continuity and that continuity is part of the degenerating process of man. When there is an ending of continuity, something new can take place. One can understand it instantly if one has understood the whole movement of thought, of fear, hate, love - then one can grasp the significance, instantly, of what death is.
Whatever you are be a good one.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Be the ball.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
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Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Great men are not always wise.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
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Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
We have not yet begun to fight.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.