Rajneesh Quotes

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

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

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

I want it to be the greatest thing I ever do: make good humans.

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

Every person can reach a full life.

The goal in my life is to grow and become better than before.

I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

You can have more, be more and do more because you can change the person you are.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.