Harshvardhan Rane Quotes

After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I guess I'll walk home.' I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me.

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements.

I was homeless for about 8 months, I refused to live with my dad or anyone for that matter. So I stayed somewhere that had no hot water, ever, no heat, I told myself I have to be strong and get through it on my own.

I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park.

When I think about my teenage years, when my parents broke up, and feeling alone and being out of control and having to survive... And then other times when you've had to find your own way... that's always been a dominant theme in what I've done.

Do I have the mental strength? I left home when I was 13 years old.

We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without." p 167 love always found itself again.

I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

When my first husband died, what I tried to do is to sort of, you know, try to bring some rationale to the circumstance and think about worse circumstances, and also open the door to what other women experienced when all of a sudden they were left alone. And particularly if they had children.

I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travelled thousands of miles, often on my own. My parents were like my friends, so it felt like I didn't really have parents at all. But in a crazy way that was very liberating. It forced me to be independent, maybe a leader, and certainly a survivor.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

When everything in a person's life is gone, ripped-out gone, it's not that you stay empty for so long, so you replace it with something else very quickly.

I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

I'm blessed with a great memory. To be honest, a lot of times, being on my own at such a young age, my memories were all I had. I didn't have many pictures.

Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.