Quotes About Independence

It is in this sense that responsibility is liberty; the more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.

The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and (...) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty.

the more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

There is no adventure in life equal to that of being, and asserting, one's self.

They even found themselves able to die if they wanted to.

Don't put your life in someone's hands They bound to steal it away Don't hide your mistakes 'Cause they'll find you, burn you

Standing on my own, remembering the one I left at home, forget about the life I used to know, forget about the one I left at home

The masses of people are carried along, obedient to environment; the wills and desires of others stronger than themselves; heredity; suggestion; and other outward causes moving them about like pawns on the Chessboard of Life. But the Masters, rising to the plane above, dominate their moods, characters, qualities, and powers, as well as the environment surrounding them, and become Movers instead of pawns.

Strength, beti. Be strong. Bibi turns tearfully toward her. "How, mausi?" she asks. "How? He was my rock. How do I learn to see the world through my own eyes?" Bhima falls silent, feeling acutely her own inadequacy. By breathing one breath at a time, she wants to say. By waking up one morning after another. By putting one foot ahead of the next, until your feet recall how to walk again.

First time since I come to Am'rica, I not with husband or Rekha or in restaurant or store or car or apartment. I's all alone and I loves it. First time I feel everything not borrow. What I mean by that? When I with the husband, I seeing everything through his eyes - moon, sun, sky, tree, parking lot, store, everything. If he feeling sun too hot, I feeling upset. If he cursing the cold, I angry with snow. My brains not thinking my own thoughts.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

when one departs to the other shore, One does so alone on foot, with no horses and no companions.

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

Women didn't get to be bad boys.

Like Elizabeth Taylor said, 'Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

You know you're the turtle, right? The one who comes and goes as he pleases while I wait for you?

Now, I never got married. No, no, no, I ain't one of those funny ladies. I just won't fold myself up tiny so as not to put off no man.

She roller-set Lizette's hair before she went out on her "money dates" (You're for sale—just fucking say it…).

Nooo. Not today, of all days. She'd begged her mom not to invite her boyfriends over. And Lizette always assured her that she'd stop, that their home would be a no-man zone.

But she'd never wanted kids. Books were her kids.

Know why I have nice skin? No man stressing me out