Julian Baggini Quotes

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

I don't think I've ever tried to make something happen that I've absolutely had to force. You know how they say: if you can't avoid it, enjoy it. For me, it's the other way around: if I can't enjoy it, I avoid it.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

We can control how we run, and that's about it.

I try and do whatever I want with my free time. I think having control of what you do is really important.

In my worldview, time is energy that you can invest in things, and money is energy that you can invest. Time has significantly more leverage than money in terms of how much energy you get out of time.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life - like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth - they all have big opportunity costs.

We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

I have the feeling I've always done what I wanted throughout my life.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

I really believe that we have the power to manifest our own fates.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.