Georges Bataille Quotes

Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

People aren't defined by their relationship. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

I'm not trying to live anybody else's life.

If you live your life by what others say, it stops being your life.

And yet I know I am too young, that we're too young, for me to live my life only as it relates to you. If you had asked me to marry you the night you first told me about your acceptance, I would have embraced Princeton as part of a larger plan that involved me. I probably would have reacted differently. I might even had said yes. Alas, you didn't ask me then. You made plans for your future without me in mind, And that's okay. But how can you now ask me to arrange my life around you?

You have to make your own family, your own life.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

I want an identity outside of my work.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.