Brian Andreas Quotes

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

Life is about growth and exploration, not achieving a fixed state of balance. You have a very limited time on earth to experience all that you can. Figuring out how to squeeze the most out of your family, work, and spirituality is your life's purpose. Go do it.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

I wanted to dedicate myself completely to the things that matter to me and let everything else go, and I think that's a really rewarding thing.

I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.

I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

I wanted a fulfilling life, what every person wants. And then I just made a decision to leave music to venture out and go after what it is I always wanted, and that was total life prosperity.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.

Our only purpose in life is growth.

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Wonderful things happen when you turn 50: you change perspective. You ask, 'Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What have I not done that I want to do?'

Certain things give you another perspective in life.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.