Dmitri Mendeleev Quotes

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

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last.

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

You have to know yourself, and that once you know yourself, then you cannot be bound by - because sometimes we are bound by other people's thoughts, because we are not sure about ourselves. But once you know yourself... I guess it is really an expression of the biblical statements that the truth will make you free! When you know, then you are free, your mind is free.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

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.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

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.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

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.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.