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Rollo May Quotes: 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.
         

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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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.



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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.



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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.



If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.



Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.



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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.



Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.



Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.



In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.



The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.





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