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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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Live with passion !
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
I know that I will die laughing.
Have you checked the children lately ?
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Here's Johnny !
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
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There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
Don't water your weeds.
Love is a many splendered thing.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.