Paul Gauguin Quotes

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

We are what we make.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

We only have problems we really want to have.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

I think people, for the most part, actually want what they think is best.

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

Be as you wish to seem.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.