Richie Havens Quotes

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.

See, it's not until you start accepting who you are that you can really find success, or more importantly, happiness.

Now, I'm not 100% there, but every day I wake up, I'm happy being me, and I just feel fulfilled.

For me, coming into my own and being comfortable with myself really changed me as a person and made me more confident and vibrant.

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

I don't feel as if I have to force anything. I just have to play my game.