Quotes About Independence

The errors caused by temperament are not to be corrected, because our temperament is perfectly independent of our strength: it is not the case with our character. Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved. I

Vorrei che tutti leggessero, non per diventare letterati o poeti, ma perché nessuno sia più schiavo.

Qué espera de mi la gente? -Que tú no esperes nada de ella.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

Ci ho riflettuto molti anni dopo, esaminando la mia grande difficoltà ad accettare aiuto. Sapersela sbrigare da soli è bene. Credere di doversela sbrigare sempre da soli, senza mai chiedere aiuto, è una debolezza travestita da forza. Se non sai chiedere aiuto, di regola non sai nemmeno cosa fare quando ti viene offerto spontaneamente, quando sarebbe morale accettarlo (e immorale rifiutarlo).

There is something easy about being alone and deciding what to do and how to do it.

Watts said that real freedom was not freedom of choice but freedom from choice.

Saying no, I thought, that has always been my forte, and no wonder, given that the stupidity of the world is rivalled only by its ugliness.

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

I think she definitely has. I think, um, her and Mulder's relationship has become more equal. And, I think she has become stronger and more independent over the seasons.

When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier. —DIANE VON FURSTENBERG

If you do not value yourself independently of your achievements, you will not value your achievements.

The man who can keep order can rule the world, but the man who can bear disorder is truly free.

A stark sense of isolation encloses anyone who looks outward for validation.

I needed to bring my own gifts to my new home, not resist them, not sway to and fro like the tidal waters of the lagoon, but rather chart my own course through the shallows like an experienced boatman.

But our children are never ours. We belong to them, but they belong to themselves. They belong to people not yet born.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free. —Margaret Atwood

Maybe that, then, is the definition of freedom: to be neither protected by nor tethered to a man who can fix anything.

Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up.

Don't wait for a genie to grant your wishes. That power is yours.

In the changing weather of life, rather than drift with the currents or be cast about in storms, be the wind at your own back.

Much of our lives consists of a series of choices over which we have absolute control.

In these pages, traveling "solo" does not necessarily mean "alone." The absence of other people often suggests regretful isolation. "Solo" by contrast, is a willful decision to be the architect of our own experience.

The gift of solo moments is that they are wholly ours. On or off the road, solo moments connect us inward to ourselves with heightened clarity and insight. They also direct our energies out into the world, magnetizing us to new people and experiences we may not have encountered under any other circumstance.