Hugh Hefner Quotes

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

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

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

I just want to figure out me and grow within myself.

It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.

I'm finding myself. I'm finding things I'm good at, things I need to work at.

We're all trying to figure out on a daily basis what kind of person to be, aren't we? I am, at least.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.