Rajneesh Quotes

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

Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Science, which has transformed the material world, gives man the power of transforming himself.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

I am glad I am born in this era, but, at the same time, my success will totally depend on the choices I make.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Possibly the greatest waste in life is the gap between what you are and what you could become.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

Where you are today is the sum of every choice you've ever made. If you don't like where you are, start making different choices!

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

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

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.