Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.

I'm not running from any particular problems, I just want to take some time and figure out in my life where I can keep doing what I'm doing but in a way that I can also honor what I want to do for myself.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

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

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

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.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.

I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.

'Suddenly Susan' is my life.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.