You only walk with joy and confidence through doors you have opened for yourself.

You only walk with joy and confidence through a door you have opened for yourself.

To know your soul is your own, that's what counts.

Be strong, be obstinate, be bold. Don't let some false sense of duty steal your life from you.

They will say you're useless, if they can't use you.

Your neighbors will never approve of you so you might as well do what you like.

Better to fail on your own terms than succeed on someone else's.

Through actual adversity I discovered that nothing could crush me. Every injustice, every rejection, every betrayal only made me more independent.

Better hell on one's own terms than heaven on someone else's.