Bruce C. Hafen Quotes

I don't like to make my life like a book.

Even when I was starting out, I knew there were certain things that I didn't want to do or wanted to do.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.

It's important to understand your ownership pattern because it is an expression of the values that guide your life. The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.

I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us.

I'm born, and I die, but in between that, I can do whatever I want or have a strong opinion about something.

People talk about balance. Balance is an awful measure of things because it implies a scale that inevitably tips. I like to look through the filter of, 'Is the life I'm leading consistent with my priorities?' For me, my family is the ultimate litmus test.

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.

I hope that the restaurant I go to will have buffalo chicken fingers. I hope that one day I can work with Matt Damon. I have big and little dreams, and they're all equally important to me. A life without buffalo chicken fingers, I don't know if I would want that life. Even if it meant I got to work with Matt Damon. Everything has its worth.

I can't fight forever. I've gotta fight and secure my future and decide what I'm gonna do with my life.

I'm trying to show people that you can have any kind of life you want.

There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And when you're growing up, you find out what you really care about and what really matters.

I have never planned my life.