Gayle Forman Quotes

If you get lost, you can always be found.

Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.

The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.

I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

There are no signposts in the sea.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

People speculate or think what they want to think, but it's been really fun for me to kind of explore what I want to explore.

It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I'm really grateful for that.

I do miss competition, but I get to travel a little bit on my own terms, which is a little bit different. And I get the chance to walk around, explore, and not have to save my energy for the match days.

I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.

More than anything, I think my connection to the sea has really helped me develop my independence and a sense of the importance and value of my own vision.

I have traveled the world by myself.

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

It's such a liberating feeling to go out of your comfort zone, to be independent and strike out on my own without my parents.