Quotes About Independence

was ashamed of Father, who didn't care what anyone thought. And I envied him for being so free, and hated myself for feeling ashamed.

The sight of bribery on the back road of any country is a clear indication that the whole place is corrupt and the regime a thieving tyranny, as Angola has been for the thirty-five years of its independence—and likely much longer, since Portuguese colonial rule was also an extortion racket.

I read about elsewheres, fantasizing about my freedom.

I hate being read to. I hate the pauses. I hate the stammers and mispronunciations. Most of all I hate the slowness of it. I can read quickly and efficiently, and cannot stand someone taking charge and denying me the pleasure of reading the damned thing myself.

I decided to go because I had a free year.

This is a triumphant mood for a long trip, just slipping out and not telling anyone, and fairly sure that no one will notice I've gone.

My ideal traveler is the person who goes the old, laborious way into the unknown, and it is this belief that lies behind my travel, and drives me.

She never learned to value those things that white people valued. The greatest pride of the Kiowa was to do without, to make use of anything at hand; they were almost vain of their ability to go without water, food, and shelter. Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage.

My sweet angel," he had said, "you mean you still haven't understood that you no longer belong to me, that I'm no longer the master who's in charge of you?" Not

Y es que René la dejaba libre y ella detestaba su libertad. Su libertad era peor que cualquier cadena.

Two more divorces. Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose—and commit myself to—what is best for me.

Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.

If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.

Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit yourself to what is best for you.

The true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.

This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates.

Everyone is indeed crazy but the craziest are those who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.

The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.