Quotes About Independence

To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days.

Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies.

It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.

although they might never be rich or famous in America, they would have the satisfaction of knowing that what they had they had made for themselves.

It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.

This low-effort syndrome is often seen as a way that adolescents assert their independence from adults, but it is also a way that students with the fixed mindset protect themselves. They view the adults as saying, "Now we will measure you and see what you've got." And they are answering, "No you won't." John Holt, the great educator, says that these are the games all human beings play when others are sitting in judgment of them.

The hero's journey requires us to find our uniqueness. We simply cannot do that without enough solitude to find out who we are. Most of us need some time alone every day just to stay clear.

Abandonment actually is quite facilitative at this stage. When Wanderers do not let another in, whether it is parent, lover, therapist, analyst, or teacher, it is important for that helper to pull away so that Wanderers can experience fully the aloneness they have created for their own growth. Otherwise, they will be diverted from recognizing their loneliness by fighting off the assaults of others against their walls.

Women do not benefit from doctrinaire regulations of the one right way to be

Therefore, when you are about to make a big purchase or an important decision—which car or computer to buy, whether to undergo plastic surgery, or whether to sign up for a costly self-help program—don't ask someone who has just done it. That person will be highly motivated to convince you that it is the right thing to do.

Being alone gave me a chance to process what my senses took in without having to factor in other people's opinions.

Their motto was You Don't Have to Come Back . . . You Just Have to Go Out.

Better to be by yourself than with someone unsuitable.

What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.

His grave a nation's heart shall be, His monument a people free!

Later in life, children are often reluctant for a host of reasons to assume responsibility over their parents, a reversal of roles that symbolizes mortality.

We were just two wild Indians... on our own and no though of its being wrong. You must not have us treated like children of today. It would spoil the i picture and the interest..' Children back then, she wrote, 'weren't raised to be helpless cowards.' -Laura Ingalls Wilder

I love Stephen King as much as any red rum drinking American, but I resent the fact that I, the bookseller, am his bitch.

You are not easily rescued

She is not burdened with a sensitive heart. Hers just beats.

Just eat it and shit it and be done with it and don't feel special cuz you eat that shit with someone because in the end we all shit alone!

You gotta ignore people until they get in line.

in both bookstores and coffee shops, it's actually polite to leave browsers and readers alone. When you harass people and offer to help them too much, they feel like you're nudging them out the door.

I don't need help when it comes to self-soothing. I know how to survive and I will survive