Erika Christensen Quotes

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

One creates oneself.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

Rise above yourself.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Awareness is empowering.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.