Lauren Bowles Quotes

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

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

I've realized that Evanescence is who I am.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

One creates oneself.

You have to figure out how you can step forward and affect your own life. I think that sense of empowerment is actually really positive, specifically for the young generation because they've been bystanders in their own lives for a while.

Recognition happens when you see yourself from the inside-out: as someone who can make an impact on the world instead of navigating the impact the world has on you.

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it.

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

Are you making life or is life making you?

Our goal as women should be to discover who we are and not who we think we should be or who the world wants us to be. It's not our responsibility to be arm candy!

You are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpturing is you (Dr. Joe Vitale)

As a woman, you feel like you can change the person, but I don't think that's the way it works.

Take back your light. Know that when you're in awe of someone else's greatness, you're really seeing yourself. Identify what you most admire or love about others and see how you can nourish those qualities and bring them out in yourself. Instead of fixating on someone else's brilliance, find ways to develop and demonstrate your own.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

That's what does it-- that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.

I don't think I have changed my personality as much as I have evolved as a human. Before the name change, I was very timid, very self-conscious. Just not very confident. When I changed my name, it came from a place of power.