Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

When I was working for WWE I felt like I was trying to make someone else's vision happen instead of my own. And I think that's where I became less true to myself and I think it showed in my work.

I have to follow my own vision.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.

Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else.

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.

The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed, if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.

When you find that your life is out of alignment with your grandest idea of yourself, seek to change it.

Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I mean, I am my own fantasy.

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