Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

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

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.

Diamonds aren't a girl's best friend. Freedom is.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

My parents let me find my way and that's how they supported me the entire way.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

I'm spreading my wings at last.