Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes & Sayings

If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Authenticity is hard to fake — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The moment that you accept life and your life as it is, is the moment that you will start to change your life and this magical life itself. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

It's not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It's about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Only love and compassion can bring true and lasting transformation — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

You'll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Sooner or later everything will turn to dust - except love — Rasheed Ogunlaru

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Business should never be merely transactional -it should be transformational — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Happiness is awaiting you every moment of each day for you to embrace. You just make the mistake that you need to achieve 'this' or 'that' or reach something you call 'success' in order to gain it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Be a star not a diva! — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning — Rasheed Ogunlaru

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Too much time is wasted listening to the noise of the mind - and too little is spent living from the love and power of the heart — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free — Rasheed Ogunlaru

On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100% — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

You will find little comfort in beating yourself up throughout life. You will find great comfort in life the moment you start being on your own side. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ... but because of your love. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation — Rasheed Ogunlaru

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it? — Rasheed Ogunlaru

You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success — Rasheed Ogunlaru

All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish ... and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise - and those who are happy - embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy and unwise do not. That is all; that is the only difference. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Do you view each day as a fresh, new, unique possibility or merely a continuation of all the years you've lived? — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score — Rasheed Ogunlaru

You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools — Rasheed Ogunlaru

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Money and material things may well sustain you physically. But it is only living life from/with love & compassion - and the hearts and lives that you touch - that will truly nourish you emotionally and in spirit. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you:
stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The right word at the right time will unlock the door to treasures - the wrong one will close it forever — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Love is the only path to anything worth doing, creating or pursuing. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week & your work — Rasheed Ogunlaru

It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise — Rasheed Ogunlaru

There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack ... and nourished along the way. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Nothing has value without self worth — Rasheed Ogunlaru

If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The head thinks. The heart knows. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility — Rasheed Ogunlaru

All selling should spring from service — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

How you look it is pretty much how you'll see it — Rasheed Ogunlaru

If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you — Rasheed Ogunlaru

It may take many voices for people to hear the same message. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Care about people; yes. Care about how people feel; yeah. Care about what people think; beware. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in — Rasheed Ogunlaru

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy ... — Rasheed Ogunlaru

While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot hope to serve them — Rasheed Ogunlaru

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Communication is the breath or death of any relationship — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste — Rasheed Ogunlaru

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers ... — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Life is the best and only timekeeper. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The best way to get something good out of what you're doing is to put something good into it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present — Rasheed Ogunlaru

There is no question- love is the answer — Rasheed Ogunlaru