Quotes About Independence

nobody owes you anything

But you know what, it's time for me to stop putting other people's emotions ahead of my own. It's time for me to be true to myself, like the popstars say. And my true self wants to blast off this rock.

So when I ran out of the final bottle of Zoloft, I didn't take any more. I didn't call Dr. Barney either. I just threw the bottle away and said Okay, if I ever feel bad again, I'll remember how good I felt that night on the Brooklyn Bridge. Pills were for wimps, and this was over; I was done; I was back to me.

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

Maybe it was stupid and solipsistic, but I liked to think about me. I didn't want to be part of some trend.

I shrug. I don't really need to explain this to Aaron. He's been demoted from most important friend to friend, and he's going to have to earn that, even. And you know what else? I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

I shrug. I don't really need to explain this to Aaron. He's been demoted from most important friend to friend, and he's going to have to earn that, even. And you know what else? I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

Look at him, lying there. Why should he need me to give him strength--to watch over him, and always be worrying how he's feeling? Surely he'll find it himself. Isn't that what we believe, that we do always somehow find the strength? That the path will lead out of the forest; that the riddle will be solved; that the child never dies.

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

There's no greater education than one that's self-driven

All this leaves me wondering what it means to be aligned with a political party at all. Do they do your thinking for you? Do they define your attitudes toward issues that confront the country? If so, then you are a pawn of those in power. But in a representative republic, those in power should be a pawn of you.

You will speed up your growth by being selfish. So imagine that the people you're looking at can actually take care of themselves. And if you ask for what you want and trust that the other person will say yes or no powerfully, it will make things very interesting.

If he wants me to stay away, he should leave me alone.

Part of being a PUA is learning to control your own state, so you don't need alcohol or drugs

Something changed in me, as it did for many people, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It felt like the day I first beat my father at arm wrestling. In that moment, I realized that he could no longer protect me. I had to take care of myself.

Simply by defining oneself as a PUA—a title earned solely by the responses of women—one becomes doomed to derive his entire self-esteem and identity from the attention of the opposite sex, not

There's an unconscious part of ourselves we want to defend," she continues, "and it's been useful and helped us survive the difficult stuff we went through with Mom or Dad or the priest or the coach. But we don't want it driving the car anymore." She looks at me and Troy and Adam and Calvin, then concludes: "Life's not worth living if you're living someone else's life.

Moses never called for a committee when the Egyptians were breathing down his neck.

Individual freedom must be established before corporate freedom can be realized, but

She turned off the water, and for a moment she was a newcomer again, alone in the house after George had gone to work.

She was neither widow nor mother: she only yearned for the dignity of a woman who had once belonged, somewhere, to somebody. She had belonged to no one, for she had never wanted chick nor child. Her idea of home had been any side-alley entrance and a pint of tinted gin. All she had ever striven for was small change left lying by strangers on North Clark Street bars; and any man's bottle at all.

I think we opened a Pandora's box, took out a can of worms, and threw it at a hornet's nest." "You can say that again." But I didn't. I said, "We've been cut loose." I thought a moment, then added, "But I think we can go it alone." "I guess we have no choice. But I still want to know about West Point.

Toda unanimidade é burra.

A fidelidade devia ser facultativa.