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Quotes About Independence

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.
~ Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
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~ David Chiles
I don't need you to slay my dragons. I can perfectly do it on my own.
~ Paige Gray
The truly strong person is not the one who never needs help, but the one who can ask for it when he does
~ Anonymous
Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.
~ Lindsey Davis, Enemies at Home
You can love people, and you can befriend them, but the only person you can ever one hundred percent depend on is yourself.
~ Trisha Leigh, Winter Omens
Let's make our own way, ' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.
~ Lorrie Moore, Birds of America
The Phoenix rises in the absence or need of witness.
~ Truth Devour, Wantin
I don't want to have to save your life, ' Chord says softly. 'Not when you can do it.
~ Elsie Chapman, Dualed
I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.
~ Lois Battle, Storyville
When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.
~ Jean Piaget
In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.
~ Ann Landers
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
~ Toni Morrison
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
~ John Lennon
I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.
~ Johnny Cash
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
~ Marcus Garvey
You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.
~ Oprah Winfrey
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
~ Emma Goldman
I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.
~ Eddie Vedder