Henry Rollins Quotes

In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

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

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

My happiness is not dictated on this business. Once I realized that, everything kind of changed.

'Redemption' is about understanding myself and not worrying about my relationship with the industry.

You don't need to figure out exactly who you are right now. Just live your life.

The way I'm seeing it, God has given me all this for me to realize that this isn't what I really need in my life.

It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable

As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God.

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment.

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.

In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire things when you have been the source of everything to begin with. Everything you've been looking for has been within yourself you have been that. You then begin to surrender everything to yourself. You surrender all of your thoughts, all of your feelings, you surrender all of your desires, all of your wants to the Self. You pull it in all inwardly.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.