Mariel Hemingway Quotes

Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

Freedom is internal. Another group cannot give you freedom.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

If I had to sum it up, the goal of Scientology is giving the person back to themselves. Like, your own power of choice.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

If you always have to be watching yourself and judging, I don't think you're as free.

I don't hold on to fear as much as I used to, because I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating. It's very empowering, and I've learned a lot of that from Jay-Shawn Carter-Z, because his approach to life is very internal. It's a very good lesson to learn.

I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.

I do believe my life has no limits! I want you to feel the same way about your life, no matter what your challenges may be. As we begin our journey together, please take a moment to think about any limitations you've placed on your life or that you've allowed others to place on it. Now think about what it would be like to be free of those limitations. What would your life be if anything were possible?

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought. Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of. I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me, and I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Faith is a way of going within and creating a sense of control over one's life at any given moment.

Know and believe in yourself and what others think won't disturb you.

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.