Auli'i Cravalho 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.

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 chose to go to CAA. I think me becoming my own man is going to make it easier, honestly.

Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole.

Its important for women not to find their confidence in a man. I think you really have to know who you are before you can truly fall in love and give your all, and I don't think a man can define you. You have to own that.

There are things one must do for oneself.

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

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

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.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

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

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget that prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

My family advocates doing what fulfills your soul. They've always said, 'You're a big girl; figure it out on your own.'

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

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.

Hot Lips changed a lot in eleven years. Initially, Margaret Houlihan behaved as though a man were the only thing that could complete her life, and she didn't see what richness her life contained. She gained a lot of self-esteem through the years, and she came to realize that what she did, what she offered, was valuable.