„In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of her morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non.“

— Rollo May

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„Now is the age of anxiety.“
— W. H. Auden
„Our age is an age of moderate virtueAnd moderate vice“
— T.S. Eliot
„Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values.“
— Rollo May
„Anxiety occurs because of a threat to the values a person identifies with his existence as a self … most anxiety comes from a threat to social, emotional and moral values the person identifies with himself. And here we find that a main source of anxiety, particularly in the younger generation, is that they do not have viable values available in the culture on the basis of which they can relate to their world. The anxiety which is inescapable in an age in which values are so radically in transition is a central cause of apathy … such prolonged anxiety tends to develop into lack of feeling and the experience of depersonalization.“
— Rollo May
„Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.“
— Maya Angelou
„The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.“
— Maya Angelou