Diane Greene Quotes

It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I'm really grateful for that.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

You want to create your own path, no matter what situation you're in.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

I joined the army because I was a very self-sufficient young man. I always wanted to stand on my own two feet.

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

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

There are things one must do for oneself.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

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

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

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

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

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

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

I need space to grow and get old and be a human being. I don't want to be trapped in your ingenue bubble. And I don't agree with it either, by the way.

I think people sometimes get my message misconstrued and believe I'm trying to brag, but I'm genuinely trying to show people that you can do it all yourself, and there's so much power and freedom in that.

I like having the space of my own project.