“Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom.”
Rollo May Quotes
1909 – 1994
American existential psychologist, author of "Love and Will" and "The Courage to Create".
25 quotesAbout Rollo May on Wikipedia
“A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.”
“Stoicism, in our day, is not strength to overcome wishes, but to hide them.”
“Now it is no longer a matter of deciding what to do, but of deciding how to decide.”
“Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form.”
“Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.”
“There is no meaningful 'yes' unless the individual could also have said 'no.'”
“Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place.”
“Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.”
“Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity.”
“The human imagination leaps to form the whole, to complete the scene in order to make sense of it.”
