Joanna Russ Quotes

The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

There are a lot of really valuable services that are always pushing you to communicate with other people. But there are relatively few services that are about helping you be the person you want to be and fulfilling your ambitions.

Every person can reach a full life.

I'm trying to do something more than just be a champion who wins fights.

Everything you do tends to make you accomplish another step on the road to complete yourself.

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?

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.

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest.

I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

Why don't we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being?

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.

I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be.

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

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

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.