Rollo May Quotes

We may define therapy as a search for value.

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

'Wild Hope' just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my head, get some clarity on certain situations, and finally be a part of something that I was completely behind creatively and proud of.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and that's because I am a very free person.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

At 'The School of Life', we take seriously anything that has to do with human fulfilment - and take note wherever insight on this subject can be found.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.