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• Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

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  Fighting, Vanity, Needs

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.

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  Passion, Creativity, Commitment

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• The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

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  Inspirational, Turtles, Progress

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• To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.

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  Truth, Believe, Doubt

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

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  Fighting, Covered Up, May

  "Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence". Book by Rollo May, Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel, 1972.

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• Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.

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  Care, Matter, Doe

  "Love & Will".

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• Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to a friend truths that go deep and hurt these require self-affirmation, self-assertion, and even at times aggression. ... My experience in psychotherapy convinces me that the act which requires the most courage is the simple communication, unpropelled by rage or anger, of one's deepest thoughts to another.

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  Hurt, Communication, Simple

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.245, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

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  Courage, Reality, Like Love

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

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  Self Esteem, Society, Trying

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

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  Way, Values

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.203, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

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  Courage, Creativity, Using Your Talents

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• Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

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  Choices, Fundamentals, Existentialism

  Rollo May (1994). “Existence”, p.45, Jason Aronson

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• The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

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  Courage, Conformity, Hallmark

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• Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

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  Friendship, Depression, Hate

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

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  Suffering, Moral, Significant

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• Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

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  Character, Responsibility, Hands

  Rollo May (1999). “Freedom and Destiny”, p.100, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

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  Running, Long, Apathy

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

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  Inspirational, Commitment, Enviromental

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.

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  Distance, Self, Perspective

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.40, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

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  Responsibility, Community, Anxiety

  Rollo May (2015). “The Meaning of Anxiety”, p.132, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be.

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  Courage, Creativity, Profound

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

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  Courage, Creative, Patterns

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

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  Risk, Intimacy, Self Actualization

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

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  Block, Destiny, Development

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.174, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

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  Struggle, Creative, Limits

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company

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