Nina Hagen Quotes

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

I'm happy with the man I'm becoming.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.

I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I've done everything I can in my life to be the best person I can be, and I can look in the mirror and say that.

I have inner peace; I have accomplished a great deal.

I think self-discovery is the greatest achievement in life, because once you discover yourself and accept what you are, then you can fulfil your true potential and be happy.

You need to be comfortable with yourself first and then decide what you want to achieve.

I don't feel a need to prove anything or rewrite my legacy.

It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.