Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Freedom is from within.

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.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.

I've been trying to arrive at a person who is self-defined and able to make my own mistakes rather than having other people make them for me.

I want to be my own person.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

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

I don't think about what other people want from me.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

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

Liberation does not come from outside.

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Self Emancipation