The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity.It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personalvalues.Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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