Matthew Stover Quotes

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.

The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions.

You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.

Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.

Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

Life is a creation, not a discovery.