Quotes About Independence

I will never again permit myself to forget that isolation is the first step to defeat.

from The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran. Your children are not your children, They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Who wants to be around someone that can change them? Too much power to let another person have!

That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.

You cannot control me, lass. No one can," he said wearily. "If I give to you, it is because I choose to give to you. And Lisa, I would choose to give you everything, if you would but permit.

He smiled faintly. "Do your thing, Ms. Lane. You might be criminally young, but the night is not.

And she doesn't want company. I can't fault her for that. We all must make our way alone before we're much good at making our way together.

You don't trust anyone. Except yourself, and that's not trust, that's ego." "Not ego. Awareness of my abilities. And the limitless nature of them.

Chiseled a single commandment upon a slab of stone: That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.

It's a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It's every princess for herself.

Kim olduÄŸumu öÄŸrendiÄŸin zaman, erkeÄŸin olmama izin ver.

Don't need your approval," I say irritably. "Don't need anybody's." "Stay that way.

I hate organizations. Folks got to be free, able to breathe, and make up their own minds about stuff, not be fed a party line. Ritual numbs the brain. Repetition is grass for sheep.

It's nobody's responsibility to save me but mine.

It's today and we're free!

Decide, Ms. Lane," Barrons said, behind me. "Choose," V'lane agreed. "Go to hell, both of you! New world. New rules. New me. Don't call me. I'll call you.

He might be my wave, but he wasn't my surfboard. Knowledge and usefulness were all that stood between me and the riptide.

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

Should any of us be desperate enough to find our own solution and dare to take action, we would have been pronounced to be the lowest of all disobedient wives

I'm proud of you, son," he said. "I guess it has finally sunk in that it's important to stand up for yourself in this world." Rocky shook his head. "It's more important to stand up for someone who can't stand up for herself," he had answered. Rocky Ryan speaking with his father.

what to do with her.  She'd rebelled because she'd wanted their attention.  Any of their attention.  All of their

Could we betray our parents by going back to them?

I realize nobody's coming to save me. I must save myself. I must be my own super hero. Although I am open to a sidekick.

If someone keeps bringing you down, perhaps it's time to get up and leave