Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quotes

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

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

I learn much more by traveling by myself.

I want my readers to find their own way.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

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

The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.

I really wanted to find my own path.

I had to find my own path, and in some ways, it's been a good thing.

Everyone needs to take that time to figure out who they are. The fact that there's no love interests in 'Moana' - it's all about her - is very relatable. You don't need another person to help you find yourself.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

In my limited experience, you have to make your own decisions in life and experience things for yourself.

Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn’t take advice from anyone around me about what I should or shouldn’t do. I couldn’t go running to mum and dad and I can’t compare my marriage to anybody else’s, we all follow our own rules.

We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.