Rollo May Quotes

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician.

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

Healing is a choice. It’s not an easy one because it takes work to turn around your habits. But keep making the choice and shifts will happen.

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance.

You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well.

You can't be a victim and heal.

I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

Your body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, and much more quickly than people had once realized, if you simply stop doing what's causing the problem.

When I designed 'Flower' I was thinking about making it a positive, almost like a self-healing experience. It's like therapy.

The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.

No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.

It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me Admittedly I probably did it subliminally for you

Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.

We must cultivate our own garden.

Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

Few people can fail to generate a self-healing process, when they become genuinely involved in healing others.

Your work is to find healing. And I find, for me, it's a little bit at a time, and eventually it's barely there. And the journey is finding what works for you and doing it.

Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.

Be the cure. Don't look outside yourself for it.

Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.