Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to.

When you go to college, you're on your own. It's you and God. It's a question of what are you made of and how much is God a part of your life. So when I went off to college, I knew that was going to be the case.

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.

Have your own life before you become somebody's wife.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

I also work with the spirituality of people.

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.

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 don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.

For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

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.

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

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

I learn much more by traveling by myself.

Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you.

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 need to be allowed to make my own decisions and mistakes, take leaps - and fall - without receiving too much help, because it's what I'll be doing for the rest of my life.