Shakti Gawain Quotes

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.

I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.

You alone are enough.

I am totally okay on my own. I don't want to have to have a man to feel whole. It's not that I need that to feel like I have a full life. No, I have a full life.

I think being independent gives you a different confidence about yourself. It gives you more power, especially in certain relationships.

I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.

And there is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my life, and feel as good as I can about myself, and to lead as full and eventful a life as I can, so that it doesn’t ever feel like I’m just waiting around for some guy to ask me out. And most importantly, it’s good for us all to remember that we don’t need to scheme and plot and beg to get someone to ask us out. We’re fantastic.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

If we are happy within ourselves, we don't accept or demand that our partner should fulfill every need. We need to be comfortable with our own company.

All I've ever needed is myself.

You have enough people against you... be for yourself.

I'm not driven by being understood.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.