Geoffrey Fisher Quotes

I spent many years seeking self-awareness and wondering what I should be doing on this planet.

A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are.

A celebrity life can be very fast-paced, and it can be hard to find meaning in it. I believe that everyone is looking for the answers, but the answers are within ourselves.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.

Real human purpose in life is to realise self. I am on the path to spirituality, to realise my inner self.

I've never been career-oriented. Did I ever want to be a star? What's a star? Is that something in the heavens? That's the only definition that comes to my mind. And the most important goals in my life have been to move gently, to be at ease with the mystery of what it's all about.

We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It's a harrowing moment when you're confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to live your life for you.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.

In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

I think that we all at some point are in search of something - a higher power, whatever you want to call it, the meaning of life. I know I was, especially at even my son's age in my 20s, and dabbling in Eastern philosophies and yoga and Buddhism and Christianity and Islam. I kind of touched them all, you know, just trying to figure out the meaning of life or if nothing else, figure myself out.

I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.