Rajneesh Quotes

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.

Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices.

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this life and make something of it is an incredible thing. Not many living creatures have that option. We have so many opportunities and options - it's a huge burden, but it's also the most freeing part of our lives.

I have the luck to choose what to do in my life.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

You do not choose the life you will experience ahead of time. You may select the persons, places and events - the conditions and circumstances, the challenges, the opportunities and options - with which to create experiences. What you create with these is your business.

Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.

Either you are creating your life or the circumstances are.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

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've never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it's my responsibility and my choice to live my life that way.

Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.