Damien Hirst Quotes

I like the way my life has taken me.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.

Yeah, I've had an odd youth, But I wouldn't know the difference if I'd lived it any other way. And I wouldn't change any of it because I quite like what I'm doing.

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

When I'm out having the experiences, that's exactly what I'm doing: having the experiences. Then I can later reflect and write.

My life is not a sound bite.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life

I think the terminology I would use is 'a continuous process of reflection'. I've always thought of only two questions that have mattered to me personally. One is what is really needed in the world and the second is what's really important to me and how these two intersect. It's always been a reflective process - spiraling around these two poles.

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.