Mother Angelica Quotes

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

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Every person can reach a full life.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

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

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

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

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

My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.

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

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.