John Schnatter Quotes

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.

I love being lost! I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone. I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people, we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life and I don't have a problem with that.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

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

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.

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.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

The beauty of knowing yourself is nobody else has to.

There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It's a unique experience and one that is so self-educating.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

You have the power to let power go

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.

Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

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

If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.

...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.

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.

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.

There's so many nice things about being single; you have yourself really present with you like 100 percent.