Harlan Ellison Quotes

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

The stories I want to tell are when we're our own heroes and our own enemies, and I don't think that's a rude thing to ask for. I don't think that's something I should apologize for.

I want women to learn to find themselves.

I had played on the police athletic league, but my father had a unique thing, he always said, 'Before you start going to basketball camp and doing all the things, you should learn about yourself first before somebody else starts telling you how to play.'

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.

Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

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

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

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

I like my life. I'm not living through anybody else's eyes, anybody else's life; I'm enjoying mine.

It took time for me to step away and become an independent thinker so that wherever I am in the world, I understand who I am and that nothing's impossible.

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.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.