Jonathan Galassi Quotes

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

Be yourself, take control of your life.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

I think I finally have really taken ownership of myself and me as a gymnast.

I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

Liberation does not come from outside.

I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

You have to empower yourself.

I used to just let people tell me what to do. I didn't really have a mind of my own, and I couldn't really say yes or no to things because I didn't really know what I wanted, but now I feel really confident in the fact that I can really be distinctive on what I want and how I want to do things.

For me, growth and empowerment are about giving a woman a choice.

Independence was something I really wanted from a young age and I think it really helped me make sense of myself, more so than perhaps say going to university would have done.