Ellis Peters Quotes

My personality doesn't interest me.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

One creates oneself.

In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Education is freedom.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

I think skating helped me find myself.

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

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

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.'

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

He who integrates is lost.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.