Quotes About Independence

There are times when I'm alone and I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my thoughts and my small acts of creation and my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

We have defied the day as it was set out for us.

Whatever everyone else was not, I was willing to be.

LYNDA: Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes. TINY: People are halves? LYNDA: They're not trying to sell you on it yet, but believe me, they will. The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. Agreed? TINY: Agreed!

being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you're trapped.

Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

I look for that confirmation that if I didn't have you, I'd still be a person someone would want.

You cannot live for anyone else's sake. As much as you may want to, you can't stay alive just because other people want you alive. You cannot stay alive for your parents. You cannot stay alive for your friends. And you have no responsibility to stay alive for them. You have no responsibility to anyone but yourself to live.

i do not eat breakfast. i never eat breakfast. I haven't eaten breakfast since I was able to walk out the back door without eating breakfast first.

I am a solo flier looking out over the land of Boyfriends and Girlfriends. I am three notes in the middle of a song.

Don't let anyone make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

You're on your own … until you're not.

But this is what losing most of your friends does: It makes you unafraid. Whatever anyone threatens, whatever anyone is offended by, it doesn't matter, because you have already survived much, much worse. In fact, you are still surviving. You survive every single, blessed

It's good to have each other, but you also need to have your own people, your own experiences.

Wherever she is, whatever she's doing – it's not about you. It's about her. And you have to let it be about her. Sometimes we don't want to be found right away. If we step away, it's because we need to be found on our own terms.

Dude, nobody puts baby in a corner.

But no relationship should rely on you blocking out the world. The world will always get in.

After all, people are always separable.

I was seventeen, halfway toward eighteen, and I had learned something nobody had ever taught me: Once you get to a certain age, especially if a driver's license is involved, you can go a whole day—a whole week, even—without ever seeing your family. You can maybe say good morning and maybe say good night, but everything in the middle can be left blank.

The only thing I am allowed, the only thing I am given, is myself. It is enough, but only barely.

But this is what losing most of your friends does: It makes you unafraid.

Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

I have to let go of some other things in order not to crash right into the ground. I no longer give a fuck. I mean, I didn't think I gave a fuck before. But that was amateur not-giving-afuck. This is stop-at-nothing, don't-give-a-fuck freedom.

i don't want my body to be a temple. i don't want it to be worshiped or congregated.