Wilhelm Reich Quotes

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

The doer alone learneth.

Everyday I strive to, at least, recognise my short-comings and the things I have to do to be the best person that I can possibly be.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

We all come to the point where it's time to get yourself straight, as a businesswoman, a mother, whatever you are in life. It's tough love but it's also being real with yourself. It's important to take those rose-coloured glasses off and see what's going on.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.