Amanda Hocking Quotes

I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I think being independent gives you a different confidence about yourself. It gives you more power, especially in certain relationships.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

You don't need someone to complete you.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.

It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

Be the Woman You Want to Be.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.

We each need to become our own hero.

And there is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my life, and feel as good as I can about myself, and to lead as full and eventful a life as I can, so that it doesn’t ever feel like I’m just waiting around for some guy to ask me out. And most importantly, it’s good for us all to remember that we don’t need to scheme and plot and beg to get someone to ask us out. We’re fantastic.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.

All I've ever needed is myself.

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.