Quotes About Independence

Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted.

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?

Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum!

Darlin', you are all female but not in the least little bit weak.

Before she could touch him, he stepped back. "I've no need of a human." "Half-Light, " she corrected, still meeting his gaze in the surface. "I've no need of a dragon magician.

She owed him nothing - less than nothing.

He smiled. "You didn't think we were going to follow orders from a psychopath and run scared, did you?

There's nothing childish about me, sweetheart.

I'm adaptable. A nomad, my mom always says." Zoe raised an eyebrow. "Your mom?" "Well I wasn't spawned.

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

When people can walk away from you: Let them walk.

Do not make homes out of people. This will leave you homesick and sad.

This is my homeland; no one can kick me out.

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

And what is strangest of all, most unnatural of all, is that the finger hasn't got the slightest desire to be on the hand, to be with the others;

What does it matter to you that I'll stay here alone? What does it matter to you if I don't want others to want on my behalf, but want to want for myself-if I want the impossible .....

I have spent much of my life turning away from the scripts given to me, in China and in America; my refusal to be defined by the will of others is my one and only political statement.

It was not about keeping a man; it was a lesson on how not to become an ugly woman.

Lucky she was, she would reply, with no children to break her back, no husband to break her heart.

If a person is not living for others, it does not mean he knows how to live for himself. One prefers anyone - a mother, a lover, a friend - who knows how to live for herself. Such knowledge is not selfishness.