Ariel Levy Quotes

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

I see kids and young adults walking the streets of L.A. with this enormous sense of entitlement, who seem to think that if they are basically good people and pay their bills, then the world will be good back to them. And I think life isn't always like that.

It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process.

I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Personal power gives you a sense of accomplishment. It enables you to live fully and zestfully. It provides you with a mature reason for liking yourself better. To state it another way, it is the mark of a healthy and well-adjusted individual to seek self-advancement by mastering his human relations.

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.

With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.

I think a woman can come into her power at any age.

I want women to learn to find themselves.

When I was younger, I was more self-conscious about living up to or surpassing the expectations of others. But as you get older, you start to build confidence.

I just want to figure out me and grow within myself.

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.

Independence was something I really wanted from a young age and I think it really helped me make sense of myself, more so than perhaps say going to university would have done.

In our world, we have this huge focus on vicarious living - politicians, movie stars, athletes, coaches, all these people. What our research has shown very clearly is that people who are really happier and have more meaningful lives are people that focus on living their own lives.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

Everything you do tends to make you accomplish another step on the road to complete yourself.