Quotes About Independence

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

Ask God's blessing on your work but don't ask him to do it for you.

God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

A girl does not need anyone who does not need her.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.

Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.

I am single and not looking to be in a relationship.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

It's very fun to be single, because you know what happens? You find yourself. You understand what it means to love yourself, instead of putting all this energy into give-and-tug in a relationship.

Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.

Every pot must sit on its own bottom.

Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know.