Quotes About Independence

Democratic individualism does not officially provide much of a place for leaders in a regime where everyone is supposed to be his own master. Charisma both justifies leaders and excuses followers.

First radio, then television, have assaulted and overturned the privacy of the home, the real American privacy, which permitted the development of a higher and more independent life within democratic society.

In the new order a Locke was freewith almost no danger of being interfered withto think his sublime thoughts, to seek the first causes of all things, to understand the nature of things. He could talk with his friends and teach the young. And there was money enough. The academies and universities satisfied Socrates demand to be fed in the prytaneum.

425. O sonambulismo natural tem alguma relação com os sonhos? Como explicá-lo? "É um estado de independência do Espírito, mais completo do que no sonho, estado em que maior amplitude adquirem suas faculdades. A alma tem então percepções de que não dispõe no sonho, que é um estado de sonambulismo imperfeito. No sonambulismo, o Espírito está na posse plena de si mesmo.

He felt poor, as well, although he didn't consider himself poor. He considered himself free.

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

Nothing guarantees our freedom. Deny it often enough and one day it will be gone, and we'll not know how or when.

For years some of us have focused our attention (and worries) on our adult children. We've not only taken on the role of director in the drama of their lives, but the roles of producer, stage manager, dresser, caterer, financier, and scriptwriter as well. We've done countless things for them that they are more than capable of doing for themselves.

This show is over. But a new production is on the horizon! We must replace our enabling behavior with something else. Ending Enabling Behavior From experience I've learned four life-saving truths about changing enabling behavior: We can pray for the power to change ourselves. We can help (not enable) adult children of any age develop wings to fly on their own. We can find comfort in knowing we are not alone

Once I entered the house late at night and overheard Mark and my mom having sex by the fireplace. She was moaning like she was flying on a magic carpet. I almost puked into the kitchen sink. I would give anything for her to dump him. Jade's mom says it will never happen because women over 45 have a better chance of getting blown up by a terrorist than finding a man. Haha! If I ever get that desperate, I will buy a giant vibrator and never leave the house.

We don't owe nobody nuthin', and we don't make no deals, we're swingin' chicks on motors, and we're man-eaters on wheels!

When I got to college, when I finally fled the suffocation that I'd built around myself—because, to my father's credit, he'd never asked me to captain our plagued family's ship—it all collapsed.

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

Independence, she's discovered, feels just as good as codependence once did. She's as surprised as anyone to realize this.

conditioned women to eat their own likenesses so they didn't realize that if they banded together, they'd be unstoppable.

that, we are not the type of people who chase down others who spurn us.

Cleo didn't want Bowen, or even Gaby, to tell her how to stay safe in a storm. She didn't want Matty to ask who looked out for her. She did. That was just how it had been since she was seventeen. Besides,

Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking.

So you just...left?' Zach huffed. 'All the cool kids are doing it.

I'm someone who doesn't have anything to lose.

Hey No one makes me do anything. Not my family. Not your family...not even you.

In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO READ. :)

If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.