Quotes About Independence

focused on interpersonal relationships between bright, strong-willed adults

A smart girl leaves before she is left

Southern women are impossible to live with because they will never find a man who treats them like their daddy did.

There is no harm in carrying a borrowed umbrella, but toothbrushes and opinions should always be one's own.

Agatha Swanburn - "Never underestimate a Swanburn girl, for a Swanburn girl never underestimates herself.

The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.

She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..

She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..

Man braucht nur eine Insel Allein im weiten Meer. Man braucht nur einen Menschen, den aber braucht man sehr.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

The fact that our qualities are relational has ethical implications. Since there is no "me" that is completely independent of my relationships, I live well to the extent that I do a good job at my relationships.

A lion does not take orders from sheep.

Breaking from the herd is better than getting lost in it.

Carving your own path gets you to greatness quicker than following someone else's trail.

Define yourself; you have the monopoly on your life's dictionary.

Sure,but that don't mean I've got to go far away.On your own has nothing to do with distance.

I had a nightmare about being Trapped in an elevator with a self-made man-- He was born with a silver bootstrap in his mouth; He pulled himself up by his spoons. But when he lived in the fraternity, Before he could roll his sleeves up and get anything done, He would pack his laundry into boxes And mail it off to his mother and his grandmother-- They would wash and iron his clothes, And then mail them back to him.

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

If you ever fall for a woman, make sure she's got balls.

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon.

And yet, everything was different. And it was different because she no longer felt she was there simply to serve the dreams of other people. She no longer felt like she had to find sole fulfilment as some imaginary perfect daughter or sister or partner or wife or mother or employee or anything other than a human being, orbiting her own purpose, and answerable to herself.

Don't let anyone or anything make you feel you aren't enough.

I did not know how to be me, my strange and unusual self, without her. I had tried it, of course. I had existed whole years without her, but that was all it had been. An existence. A book with no words.