Lynn Coady Quotes

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.

I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

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.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

I think I've been happy because I've been able to do what I believe in, and on my own terms.

Just do what you want more often. Don't be so worried about what other people expect.

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

I've never felt like I was living in anyone's shadow. My life was what it was.