Frank Herbert Quotes

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

He who integrates is lost.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

We are human beings, not ants.

Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.

Every act is an act of self definition.

Never follow anybody else's idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only then will you attain to freedom. It is better to die following one's nature than to live following somebody's else's nature, because that will be a pseudo life. To die following one's nature is beautiful, because that death too will be authentic.

I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I'm still very much Kate.

I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

One creates oneself.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.