Rajneesh Quotes

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I'm my own person, and I think that's what everyone wants because it's difficult to be somebody else.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

Let LeBron be LeBron.

Either I choose to behave or live a life of someone else, or I choose to be myself and live the life the way I want.

I only want to be myself.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze time.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, bankers, we want to be ourselves.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.