Khalil Gibran Quotes

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, / He travels the fastest who travels alone.

I did my one-woman show in order to show people what to do with me.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

I think what my 42 years of life has given me is just how important it is to live your own life.

I have to follow my own vision.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

I think, a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.

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

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?