Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

I am I-I am powerful, but to what extent? I am I.

Power, true power, comes from within. Not without. (Nick)

Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.

I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.

People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

I think a woman can come into her power at any age.

I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

You have something unique that no one else has - your life experience. That's the power of you.

My life's not about being gay - although one could argue I'm pretty professionally gay - but that's not how I experience life. Being gay is a profound part of who I am, but it isn't all of who I am.

I'm a lion. I'm not tough, but I am strong. I'm definitely not a wallflower.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.

I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful really. They all had a high school. That vulnerability is completely permanent and, as an actor, it's a good thing.

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.

The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.

I think that it doesn't matter if I travel all over the place. I'll always be a normal teenager on the inside. It always depends on how you act yourself, not what happens to you. That's my view of it all.

the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball

Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole universe will lie at your feet. It is the Self alone that predominates, and not matter.

That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now they so beautiful that they can't bear to see you go.

To make every little thing special is to grant a magical quality to your life. Once your life becomes charmed in such a way, whatever blocks you may have experienced in the past melt in the light of that inner energy pouring from your heart. From a businessman's point of view, this is beautiful, for everything you touch turns to gold. Further, it helps you to believe in yourself. In seeing worth all around, you make your every act an affirmation of your strength.

If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you.