Rollo May Quotes

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.

It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

It took me a while to find myself.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Sometimes I forget that I am even watching myself, realizing that's me. It's like you almost become a fan yourself: You are just this normal person watching this show, and then you realize that it's your show. It's weird sometimes.

It's kind of my biggest fear: thinking I know somebody I'm going to be, and then I don't. It's probably only happened to me once or twice, but that was enough for me to definitely not do a role unless I 100% can be that person.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

Although he may not be human, it’s good that Messi still thinks he is.

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.

Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.

It's very hard to look in the mirror. We all know this. It's much easier to have illusions about yourself. And in particular, when you think, well, I'm going to believe what I like, but I'll say what the powerful want, you do that over time, and you believe what you say.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.