Quotes About Independence

The realization that the best way to get things done is to let go. Here's the thing. . . . It's often the case that people want to help you or work with you. But they can't if you insist on holding on to tight control. The more you let go, the more people will surprise you.

But the best things that ever happened to me came during the times when the shit hit the fan and I had nothing and nobody to help me. Who are you really? What do you really want? Get out there and fail and find out.

lo peor que puede pasar es que acabe llevando una mochila y un saco de dormir

Creo que debemos enseñar a los chicos dos cosas: 1) a dirigir, y 2) a resolver problemas interesantes. Porque la cuestión es que hay un montón de países en la Tierra con gente dispuesta a ser obediente y a trabajar más por menos dinero que nosotros.

Realize that bosses are supervisors, not slave masters.

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. For females: West with the Night by Beryl Markham.

You need to build your own house, your own shelter.

cuanto más asociamos el dinero con la vida, más nos convencemos de que somos demasiado pobres para comprar nuestra libertad.

ganando dinero para disfrutar de una libertad discutible en la parte menos valiosa de ella».

Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month," he posited, "the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this—or the boy who had . . . received a Rodgers' penknife from his father? Which would be most likely to cut his fingers?

Vagabonding involves taking an extended time-out from your normal life—6 weeks, 4 months, 2 years—to travel the world on your own terms. But

Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. —RALPH CHARELL

Interrogate the information shared with you by others, and use it as a way to make up your own mind, not a path to follow.

I decided a long time ago that I would only bet on myself.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. —BISHOP DESMOND TUTU, South African cleric and activist

Disciplina igual a libertad"».

No one owes you anything." Amelia Boone

Whether or not you "need" someone at this point is immaterial. It is an exercise.

Ultimately, you must find your own answers; other people's answers are never enough.

Think for yourself and question authority.

question authority

Think for yourself. Question authority.

Self-Sufficiency

Beat and cuff the slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog," but "give him a good master, and he wishes to become his own master."1