Quotes About Independence

Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

As an adult, you have enough knowledge and life experience to take good care of yourself, and you don't need to blindly follow childhood rules any longer in order to keep yourself safe.

Seul l'homme qui s'est trouvé, l'homme qui coïncide avec lui-même, avec sa vérité intérieure, est un homme libre.

Once you start living according to other people's rules, going along with what other people think, your soul shrivels and dies.

I'd rather be alone with the bills, she thought as she pushed the elevator button. At least you know where you stand.

Once she saw herself as the source of her disappointing love story, Dianna discovered there was no shortage of evidence that she was the author of her own deep aloneness in life.

If you don't like being a doormat, then get off the floor. AL-ANON

If I stay here, I will be just fine. Before I shut the door, I got a box of crackers from the kitchen, so I will be fine.

I'm not an infant, Georgie." "I can see that." His bedclothes left little to the imagination.

You'll mend, you may never let another man near you again, but you'll be strong. Woman are. When a man breaks he stays broken.

Tomorrow, I will embody what it means to be aging gracefully. I will be the Perfect Single Guest. I will be Katharine Hepburn (at thirty-three, not eighty) of the wedding. I am going alone. And I am not allowing myself one second of self-deprecation. Not one second. Affirmations and visuals. I am Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice. I am Bette Davis in All About Eve. I am anyone, anyone at all, but me, Diana Moore, of brown hair, nine of shoe, and wide of thigh.

When you get old, everyone wants to protect you," Rosie says to me. "They don't remember that if you managed to et this old, you've probably figured out how to protect yourself.

You didn't have parents or society telling you that you should love one another because you were brothers, you just did it by yourselves. There is no way, no earthly way, that that can ever be called a failure. You succeeded with Huck more than most people ever succeed with anyone.

Independance grows out of a child's faith that her source of security will always be there when she needs it.

Marie had professors who said, "don't trust what people teach you, and above all what I teach you." In other words, think independently and test supposed "facts." She was in heaven.

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

The greatest advantage of all is that when people think you're a witch, you can eat an entire serving of squash all by yourself.

Whenever "everyone" is doing something, I seek to avoid it. But whenever someone tells me not to do something, that thing has a way of becoming the only thing that I want to do. I

Whenever "everyone" is doing something, I seek to avoid it. But whenever someone tells me not to do something, that thing has a way of becoming the only thing that I want to do.

I'd like to live in great comfort. And peace.' And then she added, quite to her surprise, 'With no one to tell me what to do or how to do it.

What would you like to do with it?' he pressed. Grace thought a moment. 'Live, Monsieur Tissot. I'd like to live in great comfort. And peace.' And then she added, quite to her surprise, 'With no one to tell me what to do or how to do it.' He

Better to go alone than to be badly accompanied. - Madame Dariaux

No one had ever advocated her independence before. The entire success of her marriage, her whole career as a woman, depended largely upon her cheerful, uncomplicated dependence, first on her family and then on her husband. But now this stranger was challenging her; asking her to make choices, take responsibility.