Cesare Pavese Quotes

I think when you live your destiny, you allow yourself to get in touch with your inner essence. What's difficult in life is the economic and social requirements that distract us from bringing forth our true passion.

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.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

A celebrity life can be very fast-paced, and it can be hard to find meaning in it. I believe that everyone is looking for the answers, but the answers are within ourselves.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

You're put in certain situations and it kind of opens up those doors and it opens up your eyes to realize what your true calling was.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

I've always set out to embrace all that I am.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace - you feel as though you're where you're meant to be.

After a few years, I understood that this is what I was meant to do.