Temuera Morrison Quotes

From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture.

The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices.

I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

'My Struggle' came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone.

Everyone's path is different. It's not always about money - sometimes it's about the journey.

Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.

I really do feel like an unremarkable person trying really hard, openly, to do something interesting and to make something of value and pleasure.

I wanted to write a book about what it's like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself - that struggle. There are all these books and inspirational speakers talking about being a lifelong learner, and it's so great to reinvent yourself, the brand of you. And I wanted to say, you know, it's not like that. It's actually really painful.

My entire college career has kind of been me stepping into my joy.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

Your past may not be perfect, but it was perfect for your purpose.

I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.

Every story about Oprah Winfrey Network was that it was struggling.I literally had a come-to-Jesus meeting with myself to say, 'Lord, what would you have me do?' What I know for sure is that the only way to hold onto yourself is through a spiritual base - otherwise you lose it.

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

The life of man is a self-evolving circle.