Anne Perry Quotes

I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.

We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

For a long time, I consciously tried to be a good person for others. Not anymore. Caring about other people keeps me in line, but I've decided to just be myself.

No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes be delighted and astonished at the extraordinary high level to which they'll rise if they're let alone.

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

Live life on your own path. Everybody's got something different. You can't keep up with all those people, so you better keep up with yourself.

Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home with oneself. This means basically learning who one is, and learning what one has to offer to the contemporary world, and then learning how to make that offering valid.

Now, I'm a dad, I'm an adult. I've been solo for 25 years; I've been in other people's groups but I'm solo [in a broader sense]. I stopped comparing myself to other people's maps when I was maybe 24, really. The trajectory that I've gone on is not one that I can compare with anybody else.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

Everyone has their own path and you can't judge.

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.