Haruki Murakami Quotes

More than anything, I think my connection to the sea has really helped me develop my independence and a sense of the importance and value of my own vision.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

I am my own home, and my handkerchief is my flag.

Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.

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

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

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

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.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

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

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her. She will be her own individual self... Stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strength.

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.

I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'

Being independent is everything. That's all I know.

At the end of the day, I'm my own person.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

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

Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole.

I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.

Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.