Quotes About Independence

If you need to be rescued by someone, become that someone yourself. Become Princess Charming. She is you.

If we are not strong, our offers of help are minimally useful.

The best thing we can do for our adult children is to get into recovery for ourselves and set them free to find their own way to recovery.

home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.

Et puis vous vous rendez compte que l'amour n'est ni dépendance, ni possessivité, ni convenance, ni négation de soi ou de l'autre. (p.233)

Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or tempted. Free to be himself. Bink put his face in his hands and cried.

Bink stare the way Jewel had gone. I wish there was something I could do. You can leave her alone, Cherie said firmly. She must make her own life.

Bink stared the way Jewel had gone. I wish there was something I could do. You can leave her alone, Cherie said firmly. She must make her own life.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

the greatest of penalties is being ruled by a worse man if one is not willing to rule oneself. It is because they fear this, in my view, that decent men rule, when they do rule; and at that time they proceed to enter on rule, not as though they were going to something good, or as though they were going to be well off in it; but they enter on it as a necessity and because they have no one better than or like themselves to whom to turn it over.

Nevertheless, there's still a dissenting voice, albeit a single one—mine

those who have made their own money don't just care about it because {5} it's useful, as other people do, but because it's something they've made themselves.

How brave a thing is freedom of speech, which has made the Athenians so far exceed every other state of Hellas in greatness!

porque si teme, es esclavo.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly; for while bodily labours performed under constraint do not harm the body, nothing that is learned under compulsion stays in the mind.

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.

And that's another thing. What if I were to talk to Tanker, find out if he's happy at the Polonius Room, see if maybe he wants to come back? He was always such a key part of this kitchen. Rickey pointed a chocolate-smudged finger at Lenny. Don't you dare. If I decide I want to talk to him, I'll talk to him. I told you, I don't need you handling my business for me. I understand, Lenny said, making a mental note to call Tanker.

People with disabilities deserve the chance to build a life for themselves in the communities where they choose to live.

If I'm not for myself, who will be for me? If not this way, how? If not now, when?

Dissention, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you are not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, but you are not.

For a few hours we can be unhappy in the manner of free men.

She must come through on her own," said Ruwach calmly. "Others can call her, and I can make it accessible for her, but she must make the choice on her own.