Matisyahu Quotes

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

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

You can't wait for people to tell you; you have to know yourself.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

You know more than you think you do.

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.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

I'm going to hang out with people, and I'm going to explore myself, and I'm okay with that.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

I have achieved an inner freedom.

I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

I invented myself.

You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.

When I turned 30, I had this epiphany that my life is my own and my choices are my own.

I feel very strong about 'Brother.' This is me. I've been writing with a much more free sky, open and free.

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

Like my freedom. If I feel like I'm being controlled, I get crazy. Because I know I made it this far by following my intuition. I think people like who I am, and I like who I am, and I want to be a better version of myself every single day. So stop controlling me!

When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.

If, on the other hand, you listen to your own inner voice, to your own inner wisdom, which is far greater than anyone else's as far as you are concerned, you will not go wrong, and you will know what to do with your life. Then time is no longer relevant.

In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.