Quotes About Independence

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.

The strength of America is not in Washington.

Whatever the national or world scene and whatever the economy or the tide of war and peace, each of us has to live out our own lives.

They killed to free themselves from a tyranny of love and care.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house. —Annie Oakley (1860–1926), American sharpshooter and women's rights advocate W

Never follow somebody else's path it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.""...If you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

The Singing Revolution

Ayn Rand was a genius.

There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and refuse to conform. He'll be on his own, that's true, but while he will not have the security enjoyed by those who do conform, there will be no limits to what he may achieve.

It shouldn't be very difficult for anyone to resist the temptation to force himself into the pattern of the structured man. One needs only to remember that a groove may be safe--but that, as one wears away at it, the groove becomes first a rut and finally a grave.

My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'

The life of a healthy individual is characterized by fears, conflicting feelings, doubts, frustrations, as much as by the positive features. The main thing is that the man or woman feels he or she is living his or her own life, taking responsibility for action or inaction, and able to take credit for success and blame for failure. In one language it can be said that the individual has emerged from dependence to independence, or to autonomy.

She would like to be able to carry her home on her back like a snail and go off into the unknown.

The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.

Without a solid sense of self, individuals will remain spiritually enslaved to the group, even if the social system changes.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

i am referred to as Alexandrina Victoria. But i do not like the name Alexandrina. From now on i wish to be called Victoria.

Men are all very well, and a good husband can be enormously useful, but women like us need something to do.

To be a queen, you have to be more than a little girl with a crown." – Lady Flora Hastings

Luckily, the clever pets had managed to escape.