"Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety……" — Rollo May
"Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration."
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154 Quotes by Rollo May
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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you…
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Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form…
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Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center.
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Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of…
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We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to…
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We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.
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The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place…
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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity…
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