Self-Creation Quotes

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

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

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

Destiny is not preordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucination. You can and do manifest your own destiny.

God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people .

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

You're creating it all. Nobody else is doing it to you.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!