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Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity

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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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond ones death. – Rollo May

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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. – Rollo May

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

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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge. – Carl Lewis

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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. – Orison Swett Marden

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The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair. – Mercy Otis Warren

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It was actually a womens writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction. – Mary Gordon

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