Quotes About Independence

meet with a success unexpected in common hours.' He'd also observed that part of this success was the product of being alone. 'I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

It's a wonder they ever get out of bed at all. But they do, repeatedly, thousands of times each. And not only that - they do it themselves, with no technology to help them. Maybe a little electrical activity in their toothbrushes and hairdryers, but nothing more than that. And all to reduce body odour, and hairs, and halitosis, and shame.

If you failed one test, there was a test to see why. I suppose they loved tests so much because they believed in free will.

You are not other people. You are you. You have no control over other people. You have no absolute control over what they think of the world or of politics or of you. You have no control over what harm they may have done. Even if the harm they have done is to you.

WE ARE ESSENTIALLY alone.

As Eleanor Roosevelt said, 'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Never let a stranger's negative opinion of you become your own negative opinion of you.

Don't attach yourself to people, and try to feel as little as you possibly can for those you do meet. Because otherwise you will slowly lose your mind .

You were there before it. And the cloud can't exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud.

It was a quote from Henry David Thoreau. All good things are wild and free.

most people don't want to be free. Because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

S)he no longer felt she was there simply to serve the dreams of other people. She no longer felt like she had to find sole fulfillment as some imaginary perfect daughter or sister or parter or wife or mother or employee or anything other than a human being, orbiting her own purpose, and answerable to herself.

self-worth is not found inside the minds of other people.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.' He looked perplexed. 'Where did that come from? Is that a quote?' 'Yeah. Henry David Thoreau. You know, my fave philosopher.

Wild, she thought to herself. Free.

You might need to stop worrying about other people's approval

I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it.

Because, within the structure of the rules, you need to be free.

Equidistante. Não alinhada a uma margem nem à outra. Era assim que ela havia se sentido na maior parte da vida. Presa bem no meio. Lutando, se debatendo, simplesmente tentando sobreviver sem saber para onde ir. Nem com que caminho se comprometer sem arrependimentos.

Your self-worth is not found inside the minds of other people.

Hi," I said. "I'm the last of the Brontë sisters.

Listening in anger to your favorite political program, you will act like a person who is shaking a fist at power, when in fact you've been neutralized as an independent threat, reduced to a prop in a show.

I have no clan, nor any rank. I am unique.