Top 100 We Create Our Own Quotes
#1. We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse?
Gary R. Ryan
#2. Yes. He argued that we are the gods, that we create our own destiny. That what we are determines what will become of us. In a peasantlike vernacular, we all paint ourselves into corners from which there is no escape simply by being ourselves and interacting with other selves.
Glen Cook
#3. New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.
Ariel Gore
#4. We create our own destiny, but notwithstanding an occasional trip down the wrong path. The key is realizing when it's the wrong path and having the courage to do a little backtracking until you are back on the road to the life you were meant to live.
Books
#5. Karma isn't fate. Nor is it a punishment imposed on us by some external agent. We create our own karma. Karma is the result of the choices that we make every moment of every day.
Tulku Thondup
#6. Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
Arnold Newman
#7. And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we're on a grand adventure when we've completely forgotten what an adventure is.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#8. As a result, we create our own camps, attend only our own gatherings and conferences; soon enough, we're talking only to those who agree with us. Dialogue within the ummah disappears, our differences become only more polarized and our views become more extreme.
Yasmin Mogahed
#9. We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A
strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make
anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our
gods.
Brian Herbert
#10. Perfect love, like perfect partner does not exist. We create our own perfect love. If you care to know, a a good partner is like a construction engineer. To build the kind of house he want, he must pick the material that best suits his needs and maybe his wallet too.
Augustine Sam
#11. We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.
Benjamin Carson
#12. There is no hell after death to which your God can condemn us. We create our own hell here on earth by making the wrong choices. Life is not something that "happens to us" , it's something that we create and shape ourselves......
Karin Alvtegen
#13. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.
Betty Eadie
#14. All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.
Rachel Holmes
#15. In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death?
Whitley Strieber
#17. She would say that we create our own reality-that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#18. One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.
Bojana Novakovic
#19. One of the basic tenets of all metaphysical systems of thought is that we create our own reality in accord with our beliefs.
Mary K. Greer
#20. Since we have free will, we create our own reality and virtually everything is negotiable.
Shepherd Hoodwin
#21. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating new realities ... we're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.
Ron Suskind
#22. I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.
Louise L. Hay
#23. I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.
Jim Henson
#24. Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.
Arne Glimcher
#25. The bottom line was that we have only ourselves to blame. We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities
Ben Carson
#26. We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple..
Patricia Cornwell
#27. We create our own omens, I think, and then mystify ourselves trying to understand their significance.
Steven Brust
#28. We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.
Charlie Pierce
#29. We do not just go through life blindly,we create our own journey.
Your faith has sculpted you into the human being you have become.
Judie McCarty
#31. We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Willie Nelson
#32. People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
Don DeLillo
#33. Despite the differences between our species and cultures, there is an order that we all share. The development of a civilization is a scripted event. Minds join together to create new technologies, on its own against threats from the outside, that civilization crumbles.
Becky Chambers
#34. In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world.
Sakyong Mipham
#35. We have to create the ability to police our own communities instead of leaving it in the hands of a system that has never understood us, tried to marginalize and politically assassinate all of our leaders whenever they came to challenge the status quo.
Immortal Technique
#36. Everyone's memories and feelings are subjective, and we're teach trapped in our own perspectives. But the difference between perspectives, collectively, create objectivity.
Bao Shu
#37. We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.
Lamont Dozier
#38. Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.
Ray Kurzweil
#39. We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#40. We grow our own source revenue base, we put ourselves into a stronger financial position and so this budget is unashamedly going to be about focusing on ensuring that we continue to grow our economy and create jobs.
Peter Gutwein
#41. We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#42. Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.
Bethany Hamilton
#43. When we stop distancing ourselves from the pain in the world, our own or others', we create the possibility of a new experience, one that often surprises because of how much joy, connection, or relief it yields. Destruction may continue, but humanity shines through.
Mark Epstein
#44. I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own lives is that we work to heal ourselves and be better than we were yesterday.
Robert Crais
#45. All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.
Deb Caletti
#46. Somehow, we each create our own prisons, one for which only we, hold the key.
Sue J. Daniels
#47. Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely give men mandates, signposts, scaffolding and appealing images that tend to create religious identity and boundaries, but from the outside.
Richard Rohr
#48. We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing.
Jimmy Sangster
#49. For the first time in our lives, we weren't trying to create our own opportunities; we were simply trying to respond to the Spirit's leading.
Jen Hatmaker
#50. Maybe God left it up to people to develop the ability to bring back Christ into their lives. Maybe God wanted us to invent our own savior when we were ready. When we need it most. Denny says maybe it's up to us to create our own messiah. To save ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk
#51. We can't take or receive feedback if we are incapable of or uninterested in hearing from outside sources. We can't recognize opportunities - or create them - if instead of seeing what is in front of us, we live inside our own fantasy.
Ryan Holiday
#52. No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.
John Denver
#53. We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.
Jeffrey Sachs
#54. Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.
Mary Antin
#55. There is no destiny awaiting us except what we create through our own actions.
Marty Rubin
#56. I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.
Joel Edgerton
#57. When we choose to operate on the frequency of compassion and kindness, we create, and reinforce our own realities, as filled with compassion and kindness.
Raphael Zernoff
#58. No one is born with a talent. Talent is something we create on our own with practice and dedication.
Airicka Phoenix
#59. In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right or wrong for us, we fall prey to putting the outside world's needs before our own. We then disconnect from the enormity of our power and our ability to create what we want.
Debbie Ford
#60. We live and die by our stories if we don't rewrite our own history. The past is merely what we make of it, the future ours to create. Rewrite revise, erase.
Sheryl Mallory-Johnson
#61. Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.
Sharon Gannon
#62. Romantic comedies are there to give us dreams and butterflies, but what we can create in our own lives could be not only better but real.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#63. By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has enormous costs later in life. These same children grow up to be unhappy adults who desperately want to lead their own lives, yet lack the necessary skills to do so.
Cheryl Richardson
#64. None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.
Josip Broz Tito
#65. When you set out to change the world, the job seems insurmountable, but each of us can do his or her small part to effect change. We change the world when we choose to create a world of forgiveness in our own hearts and minds.
Desmond Tutu
#66. We need to create the kind of kingdom-shaped culture within our churches that constantly shines the light of Christ wherever these false gods exist in our own affections.
Russell D. Moore
#67. We are too undemanding, too ready to watch whatever is on the screen, too lonely, lazy, or bored to create our own lives. We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us[.]
Thich Nhat Hanh
#68. All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our story on others or to defend what we believe. Instead we see all of us as artists with the right to create our own art.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#69. We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.
Heather Marsh
#70. We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal.
Patti Digh
#71. When we create, we become stronger. When we create, we feel better. When we create, we can use our own two hands to create a new world. And this new world will be as we want it to be.
Valentina Knurova
#72. I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.
Terry Semel
#73. We must create our own world or we will die from inaction
Robert Greene
#74. It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.
Thomas Merton
#75. We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
Tyler Perry
#76. We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
Henry Miller
#77. I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home.
Jay Inslee
#78. We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
Vernor Vinge
#80. As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.
W. H. Auden
#81. That which we allow to exist, to flourish freely according to its own rhythms, is superior to anything our little hands create.
William Powers
#82. We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.
Bo Bennett
#83. Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#85. Second, and far more powerfully, we want to believe that parents create criminals because in supposing that, we reassure ourselves that in our own house, where we are not doing such wrong things, we do not risk this calamity. I
Sue Klebold
#86. After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.
Rachel Maddow
#87. We haven't evolved in our understanding about spirituality or gained more knowledge about it. What we've done was create more organizations based on the exact same principles, so that everyone can be happy and worship or not whoever they want, while interpreting the same words in their own way.
Daniel Marques
#88. Being responsible for someone's childhood is a big deal. We not only create our own memories, but we create our child's memories.
Rachel Macy Stafford
#89. Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image
Dean Koontz
#90. To know we are being spied on by our own government, and to have someone else's government collaborating on that, to know that data storage is so cheap your information can be kept for years and used to create any kind of story, to me that's a grave attack on human rights.
Sara Harrison
#91. Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.
Mary Frances Berry
#92. We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies
Bryant McGill
#93. I suspect that over time we will rely increasingly, or take notice at least increasingly, on international and foreign courts in examining domestic issues. [Doing so] may not only enrich our own country's decisions, I think it may create that all important good impression.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#94. In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others.
Greg Reid
#95. There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to create their own credit, or their own money, in response to their own needs. We still depended on banks, but it was a much more democratic process.
David Korten
#96. I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.
Sarah McLachlan
#97. Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
Emile Durkheim
#98. It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order of existence. Liberation is to know you are that.
Frederick Lenz
#99. And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in.
Shelley Duvall
#100. When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.
Jack Kornfield
