Ralph Marston Quotes

Accepting all that you are will lead you to live your best life and will allow you to be free and your true authentic self.

Your whole life doesn't have to be one long, smart monologue.

The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

What you want to do is to get to the point where you only do what matters to you. The real goal in life is to become more of who you are, so that you can make the choices that really satisfy who you are and what you want to do.

Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.

He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.

Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?

Every thought, emotion, and action is a statement about who we are, and who we are becoming. Why not make this statement 'On Purpose'?

Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.

Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself

Build a life, don't live one...

It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn't make mockery of my values. That's what I intended to do. So, that became a very radicalizing proposition for me.

There can be only one purpose for relationships-and for all of life: to be and to decide Who You Really Are.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

My trade and art is to live.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

My life is my message.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

We get so swept up in sort of what the media tells us to care about and all these other influences that we really have to dig down deep and figure out what is it that we as human beings really care about and want for ourselves. When you figure that out, you see who you really are.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate that into my work.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.