Kelli O'Hara Quotes

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

Every person can reach a full life.

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.

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

The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

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

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

Everyone is looking for a purpose in life. The reason we all go to the cinema or online is because we haven't found a purpose yet. We are always wondering why we're here. But I've learned that we have to create that purpose for ourselves.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

I do things that I actually love and understand.

My life guided me to express my full potential.

Maybe I was blessed that my main drive was purely selfish. I needed to make something, make my life better, wider, have poetry in my life, have something that gives me hope on an everyday basis. That was my main drive all along, really.

You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.

My faith - as well as my Nigerian culture - really gave me the substance and foundation to be who I desire to be in life.

I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life.

Decide what to go be and be it.