Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

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.

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

I don't know when I will peak and be at my best but I am learning every day and as long as I keep doing that I am happy.

I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.

I feel I haven't been used to the fullest of my potential. There are so many genres to explore and diverse subjects to work on.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.

There was a lot of soul searching and at the end of the day I looked back and realized it was all worth it and successful in its own way and it's led to me having this career that's much more in my hands and in my control than it would have been otherwise.

I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.

Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.

I'm just trying to get better as an artist and as a human being. I feel like that's mad important.

I just want to do as good as I can. What that is, I don't know.

Everybody needs to find their own path and the best way for themselves to connect to this world.

I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on.

My life hasn't been all about politics.

We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It's a harrowing moment when you're confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to live your life for you.

It's difficult to really assess what I've done right per say, but if I did have to point out, I'd say that I never really looked to have goals that will limit me. When one knows where he is going to or wants to end up, he/she actually doesn't realise that the goal is more limiting, than liberating.

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.