David Brooks Quotes

My life guided me to express my full potential.

Every person can reach a full life.

We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.

I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Life is really a blessing to be able to do what you love everyday, to learn about yourself. For me it's been about becoming a woman, and I've really enjoyed that experience.

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

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.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You Are. It is to announce and become, express and fulfill, experience and know your true Self.

Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.