Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

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 world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world, and I have that. But I’m nothing if I can’t be me. If I can’t be true to myself, they don’t mean anything.

Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!

Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever.

You pursue what you love, and if you find beauty or truth, you go with that.

It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

I've realized that Evanescence is who I am.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

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.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.

I can't be passionate about something or really give myself to something if I don't know it's a hundred percent authentic to who I am.

There were certainly more conventional and predictable paths that I could have taken in life, but I believe in being true to oneself and following the thing that sets your soul on fire. For me, that is music.

You definitely have to find your passion in life, and then put together a plan to figure out a way to fulfill that.

We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.

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.