Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

There are no limits to what you can create for you, because your ability to think is unlimited! But you cannot create other people's lives for them. You cannot think for them, and if you try to force your opinions on others you will only attract like forces to you. So let all others create the life they want.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

I do what I like to do.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

I want to live life on my own terms.

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.