Shannon Lee Quotes

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

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

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

One creates oneself.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

It is not possible to educate the will and the healthy soul that underlies it unless we develop insights that awaken energetic impulses in the soul and will.

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

The real discovery of having your consciousness raised was never that you'd be handed tools; it was the discovery that the only real leverage you get in life is yourself.

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

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

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

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Everybody grows in their own way.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

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.

I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.