George MacDonald Quotes

I want to figure out myself as a man.

A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

I came to love, I came into my own.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

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.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.

I just know that I wasn't happy where I was. I didn't feel complete. I didn't feel like I was contributing what I needed to contribute to not only to my, my, my fans that I had begun to gather but to myself most of all, most importantly for me.

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

I think one day youll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.

For women, the important ingredients for happiness are to forge an identity, serve the Lord, get an education, develop your talents, serve your family, and, if possible, to have a family of your own.

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.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.