Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

One creates oneself.

I don't want to be like anyone else or do what someone else did. I want to be like me and do what's best for me. I can't go do stuff Cardi B did - that may not work for me.

The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of your own life becomes your own book.

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

The personality is a work of art.

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.

My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.