Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

I lead my life as normal.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

I've taken care of myself all my life.

We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity of me, myself and I, seems to dominate. We know that's contrary to the very nature of the human person. The very nature of the human person needs God and needs other people.

For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

Only I know my life.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

I do what I do; I can't control who thinks what.

I like to control my own personal life.