Mara Wilson Quotes

Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

Be yourself, find out what you love, find out what you really want to do, and go do it. And don't depend on people who don't have your best interests at heart.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

I want to live life on my own terms.

It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

Be yourself, take control of your life.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

I don't like feeling like it's not up to me when I'm working and when I'm not. Not feeling complete freedom... that's frustrating.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

Everyone should have the freedom and opportunity to shape their own destiny.

Why make life so dull when you can make it exciting and meet amazing people and go to countries and see things? You make life the way you want it to be. A lot of people don't realize that at the end of the day, the ultimate control of what you do and your destiny, it lies in the way you want to direct yourself.

I'm not going to let other people set my limitations.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.

Let me live my life the way I want to.

I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.

I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.