Courage is not the absence of ...

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

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
 Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
 Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
 Jules Feiffer

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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
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
 Rollo May
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
 Rollo May
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
 Rollo May
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
 Rollo May