Quotes About Independence

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

Svatantra's journey began with a vision to make women in rural areas self-sustainable.

An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

take the most seriously—are those they come to, little by little, on their own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe succinctly summarized this sentiment: "Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. —James Baldwin 1 Idiots Chart note, John: Patient reports feeling "stressed out" and states that he is having difficulty sleeping and getting along with his wife.

And so it begins, at last. Charlotte doesn't leave this time. Instead, she stays in therapy until she learns to drive her own car, navigating her way through the world more safely, looking both ways, making many wrong turns but finding her way back, always, to where she truly wants to go.

once they realize that they can (and must) construct their own lives, they're free to generate change.

Freedom involves responsibility, and there's a part of most of us that finds responsibility frightening.

At some point, being a fulfilled adult means taking responsibility for the course of your own life and accepting the fact that now you're in charge of your choices.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. —James Baldwin 1 Idiots Chart note, John: Patient reports feeling "stressed out" and states that he is having difficulty sleeping and getting along

stimulus and response in order to choose his freedom.

I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man.

You can't please everyone, Gia. At some point you have to please yourself or your life will never be your own.

That both Riley and Warren are attracted to independent young women is an interesting contradiction that serves to valorize the agency of the "girls" and to underline the static macho masculinity of those guys- they cannot or will not change, therefore they cannot keep the girl.

Was nützt einem ein Vater? Er drängt dich dazu auszufliegen, schubst dich aus dem Nest und rät dir, die Flügel zu benutzen, weil du sonst zu Boden stürzt.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

You worry me, Catherine. You seem to think you're quite invincible." "I'm well aware that I'm not. But I'll not spend my life cowering. That would be no life at all.

I can't help the way they are, but I'll be damned before I become like them.

I daresay with age comes the inclination not to care much what others think.

I know you don't think he's good enough for me, but then you don't think any man is good enough for me.

You deserve better than a man who requires reforming.

I felt the need to be rebellious. A woman should have a moment in her life when she's rebellious, don't you think?