Thomas Dolby Quotes

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.

Find your self-esteem and be forever free to dream.

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning.

Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.

I'm a person who tries not to have regrets.

Vocally, I'm definitely pushing out more. That feels good. It's very freeing. I've always been very private and consciously private. Now it's kinda like, 'Who cares.' I'm gonna be free and gonna be me. I feel good.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

Good things will come from self-expression.

If you hold onto stuff, it holds on to you. It just weighs you down, and it's a waste of energy. Why would I waste my energy on being bitter and hating when I could be using it to go out and do some really good stuff, you know?

I think my most happy and carefree state was 2012 because I really did say, 'Forget everything. I'm going to play for myself.'

I realized the world spins without me having to spin it.

Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am.

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself. and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.