Quotes About Independence

Just like I didn't dare tell Jack that I was falling in love with him when I was down in Texas, wanting to be a modern woman who's supposed to be able to handle the casual nature of these kinds of relationships. I'm never supposed to say, to Jack or anyone else, what makes you think I'm so rich that you can steal my heart and it won't mean a thing?

Bad girls understand that there is no point in being good and suffering in silence. What good has good ever done?

No man is going to solve my problems, no one can rescue me, because I am too sick.

But what if you are the only resting point you know of? What if you are absolute zero? What if only you can catch yourself?

I don't want anyone feeling sorry for me. About anything. Don't apologize unless you have done something wrong. It is nasty to feel sorry for anyone for any reason because it pushes her away.

A woman who can handle a dog is pretty damn cool. If she can take care of such a demanding creature, most likely she can take pretty good care of herself.

I mean, if I were a rich kid with stable, self-sufficient parents whom I thought I could trust to attend to themselves and to me, and I were heading for a tailspin, I might feel free to let myself free-fall, knowing that someone else would provide a bottom upon which I might eventually bottom out. But what if you are the only resting point you know of? What if you are absolute zero? What if only you can catch yourself?

Thinking for yourself and making your own decisions can be frightening. Letting go of other people's expectations can leave you feeling empty for a time. And yet seeing yourself as an independent adult who can stand up for your own choices frees you to accept yourself as you are.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

You have intellect, and courage, and command. Play your own game, and don't worry about what anyone else is doing. That is what's going to give you a shot at making it. Comparing yourself to anyone else will just drive you crazy.

Now, I'm not the sort to find fault in myself just because others do;

Thank God I didn't make the mistake of suggesting it to him, thought Cadfael devoutly. There's nothing the young hate and resent so much as to be urged to a good act, when they've already made the virtuous resolve on their own account.

Women want to own a man, and that grows irksome.

Hey! Not so fast, or we might arrive on time. Freedom means never arriving on time—never, never!

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

Papa Ubu: Yes, gentlemen, but however beautiful it may be, it can't compare with Poland. Because if there weren't any Poland, there wouldn't be any Poles!

and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.

If they were to get out—they had to get themselves out.

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

Not to have a thing is less humiliating than to beg it.