Quotes About Independence

I liked reading books that nearly killed me, books that helped tell me who I was, the son who spites his father by reading such books.

It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line. I assume you know that, he said.

Meredith was not so secure in her maturity that she did not suffer those periods of despondency and doubt which seemed to weave through the lives of self-reliant women.

Someday you'll be a grown-up ... and then your mother will have no one to talk to.

Solitude asks no pledges of anyone.

She wanted to create her future, not enter a state already shaped to her outline.

I didn't call Marian. I felt a loneliness, for lack of a better word, but that's the word in fact, a thing I tried never to admit to and knew how to step outside of, but sometimes even this was not means enough, and I didn't call her because I would not give in, watching the night come down.

Once you're a made man, you don't need the constant living influence of sources outside yourself.

Open your heart and refuse to walk around the world begging for love.

He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.

We both have our independence and freedom, but we have those things with each other. It's a paradox, but it works. It all reminded me of what my friend Henry Cloud told me, that when two people are entirely and completely separate they are finally compatible to be one. Nobody's self-worth lives inside of another person. Intimacy means we are independently together.

When two people are entirely and completely separate they are finally compatible to be one. Nobody's self-worth lives inside of another person. Intimacy means we are independently together.

Lafayette framed and hung The Declaration of Independence in his office beside an empty frame awaiting, he said, France's declaration of citizens' rights.

If heroes in a story could solve their own problems, they would never get into trouble in the first place.

After all, to love somebody is to give them the power to hurt you, and nobody can hurt you if you're the only one writing the script. But it doesn't work. Controlling people are the loneliest people in the world.

The king and queen wanted to be done with him, although Louis seemed pleased to see him soon after the motley invasion. But the queen's blue eyes remained cold. "It would be better to perish," she quipped, "than to be saved by M. de Lafayette.

when two people are entirely and completely separate they are finally compatible to be one. Nobody's self-worth lives inside of another person. Intimacy means we are independently together.

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That's what gives rise to dictators.

Rules are meant to be broken.

It is easier to ask for money when you don't need the money.

America has always been the land of dreams because America is a nation of true believers. When the pilgrims landed at Plymouth they prayed. When the Founders wrote the Declaration of Independence, they invoked our creator four times, because in America we don't worship government, we worship God.

Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. Embrace that label.

But what about your own?" he asked. "Assuming, of course, you're interested in having one?" "I'm not. If I ever get married, I shall elope. That has now become my prime requirement in a husband. Willingness to elope.

am, as an English poet says in an entirely different context, 'as free as the road, as loose as the wind.'" Brunetti