Quotes About Independence

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

That blank sheet of paper stage is one of the hardest stages, and one of the reasons it's hard is because at that stage there's nobody counting on you but yourself ... it's really just you, and you can quit any time. Nobody is going to care.

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

Friend, I love your rebellious heart.

Raquel's mother had driven her fiercely to do well in school, such that high academic prowess had been the only option. Others had come upon money by luck, or had relatives acting as patrons. Rob had had none of those things. All he'd had was a home, and a harried home at that, paired with his own drive. What he'd achieved, he'd achieved almost exclusively on his own.

People bring their own shit to the way they see things. If they don't believe what you're doing is right, that's their choice. But the choice has more to do with them than with you. Don't worry about it. You made your own choice.

Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want.

You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean

If you don't have money handled, you don't live free.

We are all either building our own dreams or building somebody else's. To put a sharper point on it, we're either building our own dreams - or building our nightmares.

Hank: As unbelievable as you may find this, Scott, we can do some things without your guidance. Warren: You're right, Hank! Why, did you know I went to the bathroom this morning- Hank: Not without Scott! Warren: Yes!

Hackers, makers, programmers, engineers, nerds, techies — what we'll call "geeks" for the rest of the book (deal with it) — we're a creative lot who don't like to be told what to do.

Thomas Jefferson had once written: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Of course, to be truly 'surveillance free' required unpredictability or its cousin, spontaneity.

way counselors would shut someone down when they started arguing that they didn't have to listen, they were going to do it their own way. The counselors would point out that "Your best thinking is what put you here.

You're on your own, like you've always been on your own. You have to keep going forward, until you can't go forward anymore.

This quote I will do alone, leaving you behind. Don't follow. I'm well beyond you now, and traveling very fast.

Non volevo le loro voci nella mia mente, le loro idee su di me, le loro storie o i loro problemi personali. Perché avrebbero dovuto volere i miei?

Thomas Jefferson

As long as we lean on anything outside ourselves for support, we are going to be insecure. Most of us try to find support by leaning on all sorts of things - gold, books, learning, sensory stimulation - and if these things are taken away, we fall over. To the extent that we are dependent on these external supports, we grow weaker and more liable to upsets and misfortune.

Above all is the NPD person's need for control, particularly in close relationships.

You shouldn't act as a spokesperson for someone who's trying to impose his will on you.

Never let a man be responsible for your happiness.