What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
Rollo MaySomething is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.
Rollo MayCourage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Rollo MayThe most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.
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 MayIndeed, 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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