Tom Robbins Quotes

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.

One creates oneself.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.

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.

I want an identity outside of my work.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

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

I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

I have to have some of my voice because I have my own experiences that I lived through.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

I invented myself.

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.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

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

It took time for me to step away and become an independent thinker so that wherever I am in the world, I understand who I am and that nothing's impossible.

The gratifying part of my journey is no one calls me a star child or a superstar's wife anymore. I think I have grown beyond that and have my own identity.

I don't want to be like anyone else or do what someone else did. I want to be like me and do what's best for me. I can't go do stuff Cardi B did - that may not work for me.

To transcend and be yourself... I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.