Richard Rohr Quotes

If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.

The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

The show is definitely not just about weight-loss physically. It's more about finding yourself. It's really funny because I realized at one of our table reads that 'Huge' was really about the weight that we carry around mentally.

I always thought I could be brave and charge at things and smash 'em and walk away, but it takes courage to sit and look at things and say, 'This is what I am. How do I fix it? How do I live with it?'

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.

I believe the arts are the best way to help people go on a journey of self-discovery toward their own compassion and empathy for humanity and themselves.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

I am a woman of substance and there's a lot inside me. I have had my own struggles and my journey.

For me, Miranda has always been a much deeper character than the three-minute videos I put online.

No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.

While I fully recognize I had made a mistake in the whole relationship, and I'll call it a human error, I hesitate to call myself a victim because I strongly believe one should take responsibility for their actions.

The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.

Buddah says once you understand that you are lost and you have to find your own way and there is no help coming, you become responsible. Prayer is irresponsible. To pray is just to avoid responsibility, to pray is to be lazy. To pray is just an escape. Buddha says effort is needed. It is an insult to pray.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

The longest journey is the journey inward.