Randolph Bourne Quotes

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I've made, correcting them.

I just kind of, like, know who I am. I think that comes from having an incredibly strong sense of purpose for a very long time.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.

It wasn't until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

What does it mean to know and experience my own “nothingness?” It is not enough to turn away in disgust from my illusions and faults and mistakes, to separate myself from them as if they were not, and as if I were someone other than myself. This kind of self-annihilati on is only a worse illusion, it is a pretended humility which, by saying “I am nothing” I mean in effect “I wish I were not what I am.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.