John Ruskin Quotes

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

It's such a liberating feeling to go out of your comfort zone, to be independent and strike out on my own without my parents.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

I need this wild life, this freedom.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance?

People speculate or think what they want to think, but it's been really fun for me to kind of explore what I want to explore.

A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

When you're in your own world, you don't know what's outside your world, so you can do whatever you want.

My parents have been a great strength to me. They never forced me into anything, and I have the final say.

I need to feel like I have that freedom to make mistakes and to just try things.

I firmly believe in individual liberty more than anything else. And that you have to live the life you want for yourself.

The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.

Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.

I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.