Quotes About Independence

I've found the secret of happiness, total disregard of everybody.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.

But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown.

Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.

You don't need others to change in order to be happy.

Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.

Being naturally happy is the most impressive sign of freedom.

Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.