This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
Rollo MayWhen inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.
Rollo MayThe 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 wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Rollo MayEvery human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
Rollo May