Amber Le Bon Quotes

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.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

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.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

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

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

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.

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.

I used to just let people tell me what to do. I didn't really have a mind of my own, and I couldn't really say yes or no to things because I didn't really know what I wanted, but now I feel really confident in the fact that I can really be distinctive on what I want and how I want to do things.

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.

I'd say the best thing my parents passed on to me was to let me make my own mistakes and figure out on my age how to kind of see the world on my own.

I've paved this road myself, and no one else has walked it the same exact way that I have. There are people that helped kick the door in, but it's really satisfying to be in a place where you know who you are and you've figured yourself out.

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

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

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

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

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

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