Adam Mansbach Quotes

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

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

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

I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

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

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Independence was something I really wanted from a young age and I think it really helped me make sense of myself, more so than perhaps say going to university would have done.

You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.

When you're enlightened, you don't have to reference other people, because you yourself are enlightened. And that's a better Earth. People can make more informed decisions politically, culturally, personally.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

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.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

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

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

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