Ray LaMontagne Quotes

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

I just know that I wasn't happy where I was. I didn't feel complete. I didn't feel like I was contributing what I needed to contribute to not only to my, my, my fans that I had begun to gather but to myself most of all, most importantly for me.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose.

Once you get clear on who you are, what you do, and what you have been CALLED to do, you become powerful.

Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.

More than anything, it's been a transition into embracing my destiny. I have everything around me to be able to do this properly. Whether or not I was hiding from that early on, I think now it's great to feel that way. It's just the journey.

The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.

You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world - your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, what is my reason for being here, you know? And in that same way who am I to be partnered with, you know?

The world won't step into its greatness until we step into ours.

Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.

Rise up and become the person you were meant to be.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

I've learned a simple principle: all I have to do is be the best 'me' that I can be. One day when I read the Scripture about David, that he fulfilled his purpose for his generation. I knew God spoke to me.