Tad Williams Quotes

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.

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

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.

Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

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

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

You should wear what you want to wear and not worry about trying to paint yourself in a certain image because that self-awareness is what's going to help you become a more independent and more interesting and healthier adult.

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

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

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

There's so many nice things about being single; you have yourself really present with you like 100 percent.

I've learned that I need to appreciate time by myself and that I don't need a partner to complete me.

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.