Adora Svitak Quotes

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.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

I was out of the house at 16 by my own doing. It forced me to really grow up and take care of myself, and I learned a lot of things that your parents usually teach you, on my own.

Coming to the Waratahs was the first time I felt I gained some independence. I was telling my parents I had to go out on my own, and learn and grow, and if I made mistakes, then so be it.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

I like to make my own mistakes.

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.

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

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.