Benjamin Hoff Quotes

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

For me, coming into my own and being comfortable with myself really changed me as a person and made me more confident and vibrant.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.

A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

When I begin to work on myself, sometimes things get worse before they get better. It is okay if this happens, because I know that it's the beginning of the process. It's untangling old threads. I just flow with it. It takes time and effort to learn what I need to learn. I don't demand instant change.

When a warrior is present and awake to all that she is, she is able to take on any challenge, any project, or any future that she desires. Her daily prayer is to have the strength to love all of herself, the courage to listen to what she is guided to do and the confidence to go out, stand tall and deliver her gifts to the world.

When you do your best you learn to accept yourself

You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it.

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.