Quotes About Independence

I want something for myself, Grania was thinking, staring at her folded and clenched hands.

A descoberta está para o ensino assim como o aprendizado sem professor está para o aprendizado com professor.

To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgment is to be a slave, not a free man. It

Teachability is often confused with subservience. A person is wrongly thought to be teachable if he is passive and pliable. On the contrary, teachability is an extremely active virtue. No one is really teachable who does not freely exercise his power of independent judgment.

I hope that for my kids, too, success will be its own reward. That they'll do their best because they want to win for themselves and for their team, without even calculating my reaction, much less having it be the driving force. I don't think they'll care that I'm not always ...snapping pictures of everything they do, to be pasted up in the commemorative album of their lives.

Maybe, like my parents and grandparents, I can trust myself to be a mom without a reference library to tell me how. Maybe I don't need magazines, television of the internet to tell me how. And maybe most of all I don't need marketing campaigns designed to make money off my good intentions to tell me how. Maybe I know how. Or, by God, I'll figure it out.

Strength is taking charge of your own destiny and not waiting on others to do so. You don't have to swear and drink and beat people up and slay monsters. You're allowed to cry and take care of children and cook and get your heart broken and dress up and date and get pregnant. But when decisions have to be made, a strong character makes them and doesn't wait for someone else.

Free Kashyyyk.

Miss Brodie was easily the equal of both sisters together, she was the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle and they were only the squares on the other two sides.

But those of Miss Brodie's kind were great talkers and feminists and, like most feminists, talked to men as man?to?man. 

Think and plan independently of traditional methods. Know that there is always an answer and a solution to every problem.

Like a relay race with a long overlap in which the baton is passed—lasting at least eighteen years and often longer—our job as parents is to position our children to run their solo laps effectively.

Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you.

The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.

Now that was when I felt the [citizenship school] program was successful when it was no longer even part of an organization.

It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

but only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'twas always thus and always thus will be.

Ah, McAllister laughed, free thinkers at seventeen!

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

It means she's a wise woman… There's nothing wrong with her! Jack cried. Thorgil Olaf's Daugher can do whatever she likes. He accepted her. Why can't you? She fought the troll-bear by his side. She killed a young dragon. She tasted its blood by accident, just as Sigurd did. That's why she understands birds now. She drank from Mimir's Well. That's why she can make poetry now. Why can't you accept that?

WHY SHOULD SHE want to be married?" "It's not as though she could be in love. She's forty.

Life on the road, even for a worldly man like C. W. Post and his well-bred daughter, presented certain challenges. although he could order meals, fasten Marjorie's buttons, and make sure that she was properly dressed, C. W. could not fix her hair.

Pan Mycroft to, pan Mycroft tamto, pan Mycroft mo?e i?? si? wypcha?.