Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

Life is a creation, not a discovery.

It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

Every decision you make ... is a decision about Who You Are.

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

One creates oneself.

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that ... you really must make the self. It is absolutely useless to look for it, you won't find it, but it's possible in some sense to make it. I don't mean in the sense of making a mask, a Yeatsian mask. But you finally begin in some sense to make and choose the self you want.

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Life (as you call it) is an opportunity for you to know experientially what you already know conceptually. You need learn nothing to do this. You need merely remember what you already know, and act on it.

Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be. It’s okay if your personal definition is in a constant state of flux as you navigate the world.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.