Rollo May Quotes

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

I want an identity outside of my work.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'

You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.

I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.

Have your own life before you become somebody's wife.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

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.'