Quotes About Independence

If you love someone, set them free.

If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.

My secret to having a happy relationship is having a sense of humour and giving one another space: your own space.

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.

I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.

Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life - you need to live it on your terms for a while.

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

God and I have a great relationship but we both see other people.

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?

On the whole I prefer cats to women because cats seldom if ever use the word 'relationship'.

If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you.

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.

What I've learnt is never to work with the person you are in a relationship with because sometimes you need a break.

It takes bravery to end a relationship.

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

What relationship can you have with yourself if you systematically hand your genitals over to someone else?

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is.

Learning how to make your own fun and discover things on your own is something that is applicable to any job, any relationship, any trip, any adventure in life.

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.