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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..
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unrealized-potential
self-actualization
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Henry David Thoreau |
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point... The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.
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self-determination
follow-your-bliss
self-actualization
existentialism
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Richard Dawkins |
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If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
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inspirational
follow-your-bliss
self-actualization
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Joseph Campbell |
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What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.
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inspirational
self-actualization
enjoy-life
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Sarah Dessen |
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No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
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change
inspirational
self-actualization
self-improvement
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Madonna |
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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self-actualization
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Jane Austen |
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Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for
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be-yourself
life
inspirational
self-actualization
self-expression
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Oliver James |
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Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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goodness
wisdom
inspirational
self-actualization
being
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Marcus Aurelius |
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"Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
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self-actualization
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Walt Whitman |
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"Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full."
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understanding
existence
self-actualization
purpose
self
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James McBride |
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I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.
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self-actualization
personal-growth
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Gretchen Rubin |
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You can change your life by changing the way you think about yourself and your potential.
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life-lessons
self-actualization
potential
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Michael J Gelb |
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It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white people also said it, in fact had said it first and said it still. It was when John was five years old and in the first grade that he was first noticed; and since he was noticed by an eye altogether alien and impersonal, he began to perceive, in wild uneasiness, his individual existence.
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racism
identity
identity-confusion
racism-and-culture
respectability
self-actualization
identity-crisis
race-and-racism-in-america
individualism
race-relations
racism-in-america
respect
self-respect
self-esteem
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James Baldwin |
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"The "self-actualization" philosophy from which most of this new bureaucratic language emerged insists that we live in a timeless present, that history means nothing, that we simply create the world around us through the power of the will. This is a kind of individualistic fascism. Around the time the philosophy became popular in the seventies, some conservative Christian theologians were actually thinking along very similar lines: seeing electronic money as a kind of extension for God's creative power, which is then transformed into material reality through the minds of inspired entrepreneurs. It's easy to see how this could lead to the creation of a world where financial abstractions feel like the very bedrock of reality, and so many of our lived environments look like they were 3-D-printed from somebody's computer screen. In fact, the sense of a digitally generated world I've been describing could be taken as a perfect illustration of another social law--at least, it seems to me that it should be recognized as a law--that, if one gives sufficient social power to a class of people holding even the most outlandish ideas, they will, consciously or not, eventually contrive to produce a world organized in such a way that living in it will, in a thousand subtle ways, reinforce the impression that those ideas are self-evidently true."
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self-actualization
technology
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David Graeber |