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View Plans“ ”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.
About Rollo May
Rollo Reece May (21 April 1909 – 22 October 1994) was an American humanistic and existential psychologist, authoring the influential books Psychology and the Human Dilemma and Love and Will along with several other volumes explaining and expanding on his theories.
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Additional quotes by Rollo May
But in neurotic anxiety, two conditions are necessary: (1) <i> the threat must be to a vital value; </i> and (2) <i> the threat must be present in juxtaposition with another threat </i> so that the individual cannot avoid one threat without being confronted by another. In patterns of neurotic anxiety, the values held essential to the individual's existence as a personality are in contradiction with each other.
Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.