Karen Civil Quotes

You've got one life: find your voice within it.

My life guided me to express my full potential.

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

Before dance came into my life, I don't really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything.

I want to squeeze every drop out of my potential as far as affecting the world around me.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

My life is my argument.

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

I want an identity outside of my work.

No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.