Lauren Oliver Quotes

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

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.'

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

I want to inspire people to follow their own dream, not what the world wants for them.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I'm doing what I want to do.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

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.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

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

Who am I to say anybody can't do what they want to do and create their own destiny if they believe in something?

Everyone should have the freedom and opportunity to shape their own destiny.

You make yourself be whatever the hell you want to be, at the end of the day.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

I'm not trying to live anybody else's life.

I do what I like to do.

I'll remain an individual, and as long as I get excited about something, I'll do it.

I want to follow my path.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

You don't have to live anybody else's story.