Ellen Key Quotes

Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes - maybe even get a little hurt - and learn from them.

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live.

It takes experience to get through your lows.

There is no better teacher than life itself.

There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Every experience makes you grow.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

To experience life you have to kind of face a lot of fears.

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.