Quotes About Independence

If someone doesn't like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone.

Don't let your loyalty become your slavery.

Your mission: feel good about who you are, what you do, how you think, and how you look--without needing anybody's approval!

Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, thank you very much. Have no interest in a repeat performance." So

Throughout our lives we are all falling. Falling down, falling out, falling away. Falling in love. The trick is finding someone to catch us. And sometimes we surprise ourselves by finding out that person is us.

asking for help doesn't mean you're weak. It means you're strong enough to know you can't handle it all on your own.

The paradox of being a "strong" woman is that you are both perfectly capable of taking care of yourself and desperately hopeful that you don't always have to.

It's who you are. You're like a hummingbird, defying reality, a beautiful mystery, spreading your sweetness to all the needy flowers. Well, I'm no pretty garden blossom and I don't need your brand of sugar.

Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your purse and borrow your car without asking.

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

The years of speeches about democracy and freedom were just words directed at an audience of mainly conservative Americans who had become enamoured with Africa's best known 'freedom fighter'. His commitment to democratic principles was no more real than the Maoist rhetoric Savimbi spouted in the pre-independence days when China was his biggest backer. It all comes down to this: 'If I don't win, I won't accept the result.

In just a few months, he vows, Cabinda will be free of Angolan rule and the huge sums of money earned from the oil exports will be used to uplift the enclave's 150,000 people. 'Without doubt, we are going to win this war, even if it takes twenty years.

I always have a problem liking things that I'm told I should like. This has been the problem with most of the Wonders I have seen so far. The fact that this one is called the 'Great' Wall of China annoys me. I'll decide if it's great or not. It might end up being the 'All Right Wall of China' to me.

We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.

Never can an authority admit that the intellectually courageous - those who dare to defy his authority - may be the most valuable type.

If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong. Above all, he values the intellectual independence of others too highly to want to convince them in important matters. He would much rather invite contradiction, preferably in the form of rational and disciplined criticism. He seeks not to convince but to arouse — to challenge others to form free opinions.

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

Just because someone came back for you is no reason to be with them. Just because someone loves you is no reason to love them back.

I meant just because someone came back for you is no reason to be with them; just because someone loves you is no reason to love them back.

Delilah Darling. I'm twenty-nine years old, I'm single, and well…I'm