Lawrence Blume Quotes

One creates oneself.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

You have to figure out how you can step forward and affect your own life. I think that sense of empowerment is actually really positive, specifically for the young generation because they've been bystanders in their own lives for a while.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.