Esther Hicks Quotes

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

There are people who give you the confidence that you're lacking and once you have confidence, you're free and finally you can let out what's inside of you.

The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power.

Become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity needed to make your dreams come true.

I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

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

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

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

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.

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.

For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.