"Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."
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Rollo May (via americanexistentialism)
As Heidegger put it, angst is at the core of existential thought. Not the fear of something special, but the boundless angst of the naked “that” of the world. But what is revealed through it is also the freedom that we have in the world, the freedom to choose yourself!