Rollo May Quotes

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

I really believe in the power of the individual to make change, and our family is a real collection of individuals.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Learning has freed more men than all the armies in human history.

Just do you. Go with the flow and with your life because that's you experiencing life. You being yourself is you doing your purpose, so the more we get out of the mindset of thinking there's a certain way to go about things, the more free we become.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

Getting to be authentic is so liberating.

If I'm O.K., I will abandon restrictions and curbs imposed on myself. Not physical ones, but those restrictive tabs on my inner being, on solely myself. I will strip me of superficial dishonesties. I will paint against every rule I or others have invisibly placed.

The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.

I don't want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I'll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it's possible to be. I'm growing and I don't know how to grow. I'm living but I haven't started living yet.

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.

Real spirituality is going through fire. Real spirituality is rebellion against all that is rotten, against all that is past, against all that is being forced on you by others, against all conditionings. Real spirituality is the greatest rebellion there is. It is risky, it is adventurous, it is dangerous. So beware of pseudo spirituality which is always there, available, easily available at the door.

Being Open to the Guidance of your Own True Nature will Free Others to Do the Same

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

When you know who you are you are free.

Courage is freedom, and freedom is joy. Be fully who you are, letting the world get used to you - it will! Find a loving community of friends who support your ever-flowering growth, which is a lifetime proposition.

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character - remain characterless.

There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.

It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.