„A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.“

— Rollo May

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„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
„To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.“
— Ali
„The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That’s a personal evaluation, of course.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.“
— Sigmund Freud
„Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger.“
— Keanu Reeves
„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