Quotes About Independence

You just can't endlessly be together.' It's a disaster, no matter who you are.

It was nice of her to want to believe the best about me. People tend to do that with the strangers they're fucking. If she wanted to think that apathy and independence were the same thing, good for her. Maybe she was right.

I don't live with people, that's why my relationships last. I'm not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say, - no, it's not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you'.

Without emotional independence, I can't have emotional sobriety.

If I give away my emotional independence and allow any other person to control my emotions, then they control not only my emotional sobriety but possibly also my physical sobriety.

I agree with everything he said about emotional independence which he listed as his most important item.

Why should my happiness depend on the thoughts going on in someone else's head?

I'm not willing to let any thing or any person put my physical sobriety at risk; why should I put less value on my emotional sobriety? Besides, I like the feeling I have when I conduct myself in an emotionally mature, independent manner.

Are we doormats? Definitely not. The difference, as I see it, is that we get on with our lives. We don't sit around letting that situation decide our emotional state.

This requires a great deal of emotional independence.

my emotional sobriety is than that person or that situation, and I don't allow what happened to ruin the rest of my day. As mentioned before, it feels good to be emotionally independent and in control of both myself and what would otherwise be an uncomfortable situation.

An otherwise really sharp lady, it never occurred to her that she had the power to alter her life—by simply choosing to do so.

Only we can decide how important emotional independence and emotional sobriety are, and what we are willing to do to obtain and maintain them.

As we grow in the program, we realize that assigning blame is not only a waste of time, it is a serious impediment to emotional independence and peace of mind. It really doesn't matter who is to blame. That's not the important question. The important question is who will be the first to take a leadership role in recovery? Who will be the first to surrender, to call a truce, to bring joy and love back into the relationship?

Meanwhile, Naomi moves on, living her own life while Diane does whatever she is destined to do with hers.

Both must maintain their emotional independence in order to survive.

I had given Max a written declaration of emotional independence stating that she was no longer responsible for my feelings. Thereafter, I could no longer tell her, "You made me angry," or "I feel bad and it's your fault because of what you did (or said)." I also explained how, as a corollary, I was no longer responsible for her feelings. We both agreed that from now on we are each responsible for our own feelings.

In order to maintain their sobriety, recovering alcoholics can not afford to let others control how they feel.

They displayed more emotional independence, more emotional sobriety, more maturity. I, on the other hand, allowed a person whose actions I didn't like to control my emotional sobriety.

Feel Your Fear and Do It Anyway, or What You Think of Me Is None of My Business.

Before sobriety, the practicing alcoholic turned his or her life over to the care of alcohol, while the alcoholic's partner often turned their life over to the alcoholic. Neither took a leadership role in their own life. In recovery, everyone, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, with the help of God and a good recovery program, accepts a leadership role and finds emotional independence,

the Haitian Revolution was the inspiration for the pursuit of liberty in the Americas.

the third draft of Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence listed as primary grievances against King George III "prompting our negroes to rise in arms among us" and, in the next sentence, "endeavoring to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, & conditions of existence.

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.