Rajneesh Quotes

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

Do you. Wear what you want to wear. Be an individual. Be unique and live your best life.

...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

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

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

The individual is greater than the state.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

You never want to put yourself in that position where you don't control your own destiny.

Who am I to say anybody can't do what they want to do and create their own destiny if they believe in something?

You just gotta live your life and do it your way.

I fight for the right to be an individual. I have to be meself.

You don't have to live anybody else's story.

First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass or with following the herd as they wander aimlessly, bleating and whining, all of their days. Separate yourself now from the multitude of humanity so that you will be able to control your own destiny. Remember that what others think and say and do need never influence what you think and say and do.

I've read horoscopes before and what they say. But I would actually love to not be what somebody writes down - I don't want to be described. I don't want you to be able to read something and say, "This is how Wayne is." I'd rather you meet me and decide. I'd rather be different, basically.

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

I've always been like nah, I'm going to have it my way, that way, when I look out that window at the end of the day, I can say I did it my way, whether it's on a higher level, or a level where I can just maintain, I can still say I did it my way.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.