Quotes About Independence

Do kláÅ¡tera odcházel kdysi lidé, kteÃ…â"¢í nesouhlasili se svÄ›tem a nebrali jeho trápení ani radosti za své. Ale naÅ¡e století odmítá pÃ…â"¢iznat lidem právo nesouhlasit se svÄ›tem.

Pa što ako nam se ne svi?a podignuti prst, dovoljno je da mu okrenemo le?a. Tako sam i u?inio i krenuo iz dvorišta ponovno na ulicu.

He would never command her (...). Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders (...) What if she had a man who ordered her about? A man who wanted to master her? How long would she put up with him? Not five minutes! From which it follows that no man was right for her. Strong or weak.

Mission, Tereza, c'est de la foutaise. Je n'ai pas de mission. Personne n'a de mission. Et c'est un énorme soulagement de s'apercevoir qu'on est libre, qu'on n'a pas de mission.

To wielka ulga zrozumie?, ?e jest si? wolnym, ?e nie ma si? ?adnego powo?ania.

When the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

This had always been repugnant to him, and he rebelled against that servitude by at least refusing to give women his soul, by safeguarding his freedom and solitude

El amor es nuestra libertad.

But since Olga delighted in dividing herself in two, the one who observed life now interrupted the one who lived life: What did it matter that she was like this or like that? Why suffer over a reflection in a mirror? Wasn't she something other than an object for men's eyes? Other than merchandise putting herself on the market? Was she incapable of being independent of her appearance, at the very least to the degree that any man can be?

Aber gerade der Schwache muss stark sein können und weggehen, wenn der Starke zu schwach ist, dem Schwachen ein Unrecht antun zu können.

Los recuerdos tristes también lo atan a uno. —¿A qué lo atan? ¿A quedarse en el mismo sitio en el que nació? No entiendo cómo alguien puede hablar de libertad y no liberarse de semejante carga. Es como si el árbol pudiera tener su hogar en un sitio en el que no puede crecer. El hogar del árbol está allí donde encuentra humedad para vivir.

Entonces se percató con sorpresa que no era desdichado. La presencia física de Sabina , era mucho menos importante de lo que había supuesto. Lo importante era la huella dorada que había dejado en su vida y que nadie podría quitarle. Aquella inesperada felicidad, aquella comodidad, aquel placer que le producían la libertad y la nueva vida, ese era el regalo que la había dejado.

Mas era precisamente o fraco quem devia saber ser forte e partir quando o forte se encontrava demasiado fraco para poder sequer magoar o fraco.

Nunca fora ambiciosa por vaidade. Tudo o que queria era escapar ao mundo da mãe

Personne n'a de mission. Et c'est un énorme soulagement de s'apercevoir qu'on est libre, qu'on n'a pas de mission.

I have no mission. No one has. And it's a terrific relief to realise you're free, free of all missions.

The old scholar was watching the noisy young people around him and it suddenly occurred to him that he was the only one in the whole audience who had the privilege of freedom, for he was old. Only when a person reaches old age can he stop caring about the opinions of his fellows, or of the public, or of the future. He is alone with approaching death and death has no ears and does not need to be pleased. In the face of death a man can do and say what pleases his own self.

And he thinks he understands why she never showed him the letters: she wanted to hear the murmur of the tree by herself, without him, because he, Jean-Marc, represented the abolition of all possibilities, he was the reduction (even though it was a happy reduction) of her life to one single possibility.

Y es que de pronto estaba sin Teresa. Solo la veía de noche, cuando ella volvía del restaurante y él se despertaba ligeramente del primer sueño y luego otra vez por la mañana, cuando era ella la que estaba adormilada y él tenía prisa por llegar al trabajo. Tenía 16 horas para sí mismo y aquel era un ámbito de libertad inesperadamente conquistado. Todo ámbito de libertad significaba para él, desde su temprana juventud, mujeres

Tereza, això de la missió és una bestiesa. No tinc cap missió. Ningú no té cap missió. I és un gran alleujament sentir que ets lliure, que no tens cap mena de missió.

E se avesse avuto o un uomo che le dava degli ordini? Un uomo che voleva dominarla? Quanto tempo l'avrebbe sopportato? Nemmeno cinque minuti! Ne derivava che nessun uomo le andava bene. Né uno forte né uno debole.

what HAD come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

All learning is ultimately self-learning.

I love not having a daily routine, just having the things I need with me and going anywhere in the world.