Werner Erhard Quotes

Create your future from your future, not your past.

Once you take a stand, your stand becomes the place from which life occurs.

If you don't have what you want, you must want something more than what you want.

The truth believed is a lie. If you go around believing the truth, you are lying.

Life is empty and meaningless, and it is empty and meaningless that it is empty and meaningless.

We are not our story. Until we get that, our story keeps running us.

The job of getting to the truth is the job of getting past your story.

Be willing to be unreasonable about what is possible.

Transformation is not a question of becoming different from what you are. It is becoming yourself.

Integrity is honoring your word as yourself.

Responsibility begins with the willingness to be cause in the matter of one's life.

What you resist persists. What you give space to dissolves.

You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference, to be of genuine consequence.

Stop making sense and start making a difference.

Commitment is not a feeling. Commitment is what you do when you are free, anytime, anywhere, no matter the cost.

When you give your word, the universe rearranges itself to make it possible.

If you don't see it your way, you don't see at all.

The thing is, it isn't the way it is. It is the way you say it is.

Authenticity is being yourself in the presence of others.

Possibility is generated in language. It does not exist until somebody speaks it.

If you don't have a vision of the future, the past will run your life.

Two things bring transformation. The breakdown of what was, and the willingness to be present for what arises.

Stand for something. Or you will stand for anything.

Get clear that you are not your circumstances. You are who you are inside, regardless of what happens around you.

Most of life is about handling what's already there. Transformation is about making the new possible.

When you are at one with what you have, you have everything.

Stop trying to fix yourself. Start being yourself.

What we say is what we get. Speak as if your word were the cause of the future.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your communication.