Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.

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

I do keep my eyes and ears open but I don't spend a lot of time looking at what other people are doing to see how I can fit in.

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.

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

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

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

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I think everybody has the right to a private life.

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

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

I like to make my own mistakes.

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.