George MacDonald Quotes

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

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.

Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves.

Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

Education is freedom.

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

Freedom can occur only through education.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Only the educated are free.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

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.

I invented myself.

I would love to see every woman feel that she knows who she is and how she wants to lead. Every part of me is passionate about having the ability to do what I never could do when I was young.

The gratifying part of my journey is no one calls me a star child or a superstar's wife anymore. I think I have grown beyond that and have my own identity.

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

I was quite a different child, I felt isolated. In time, that level of being with yourself crystallises who you are, and you can see what other people are without being blinded by what they want from you.

Every day, I feel I can do more things - not as a character but as myself.

There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It's a unique experience and one that is so self-educating.