Quotes About Independence

She said she felt like Claudia Kincaid in From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

Ik had bijna gevraagd of jullie een beetje op Bel willen passen, maar ik weet dat zij heel goed voor zichzelf kan zorgen. - Charlie

Even while attaching, our toddlers are motivated by an internal clock that drives them to become more independent and autonomous! A challenge under the best of circumstance, adopted toddlers need special help finding appropriate declarations of independence. We have to surround our children with love that claims, but doesn't repress appropriate development.

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

Disdain for authority is the bedrock of my character.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

Don't never depend on somebody else to take care of you, sugar. Trust in the Lord, and then you just take care of yourself, and things will work out fine.

It made perfect sense to me. My whole life I'd gone along with somebody else's plans. Not wanting to rock the boat and put myself first. After all, most of the time I didn't know what my own plans were. But the need for my own dream was screaming to get out of me.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead." - Mary Kay Ash

What the world thinks of me is none of my business.

They all lived in their own little clouds.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.

From insipid sweet wine; from men who wear moustaches; from the sort of people that call legs 'limbs'; from bedraggled white petticoats: Kind Devil, deliver me.

To be a woman, young and all alone, is hard - hard! - is to want things, is to carry a heavy, heavy weight.

Fame may pass over my head; money may escape me; my one friend may fail me; every hope may fold its tent and steal away; Happiness may remain a sealed book; every remnant of human ties may vanish; I may find myself an outcast; good things held out to me may suddenly be withdrawn; the stars may go out, one by one; the sun may go dark; yet still I may hold upright my head, if I have but my steak—and my onions.

Do not copy me," [Antoine] Bourdelle repeatedly told his students. "Sing your own song.

One of the big features of living alone was that you could talk to yourself all you wanted and address imaginary audiences, running the gamut of emotion.

She decided she wanted a cool, starchy independent life, with ruffles of humor like window curtains.

You have to live without love, learn not to need it in order to live with it.

Mind you, after a time freedom can be a lonesome thing

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

Often I wished for someone to share my mind with; but their hearts were in little things, they would have thought me a dreamer, and I had to plan alone.