Quotes About Independence

I'd married a near stranger because I felt like I had no choice. When you're young, you have more choices than you'll ever again have in your life, yet sometimes you can't see them. I'd truly been blind.

Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you ,' she said. 'Only you can figure out if it's worth it.

Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you," she said. "Only you can figure out if it's worth it.

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Maybe I didn't march to the same drummer as most people, but I could do things on my own and do them well. That was what I'd learned, little by little, in the year I turned sixteen. I was complete by myself.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

Never make choices simply because someone told you what is right. Know yourself, know your situation, know God for yourself, and decide what is right for your life.

Epicurus, saw the pursuit of happiness as life's ultimate goal: that Epicurean affirmation is echoed in the American Declaration of Independence, curiously omitting the original qualification that happiness consists in the attainment of inner tranquillity.

When Jann Wenner, the hopelessly liberal founder of Rolling Stone magazine, was interviewing Bob Dylan in 2006, he was told that politicians cannot be counted on to solve problems. To him, the statement seemed absurd. "Who is going to solve them?" Wenner asked, incredulous. Dylan replied, "Our own selves2." He's exactly right. If we want things

L'avait-elle déjà fait, d'ailleurs ? Il y a en elle quelque chose de totalement virginal : une liberté rêche, une intransigeance rêveuse, une mélancolie sans prise.

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

Has the community served to make individuals free, strong, and mature, or has it made them insecure and dependent? Has it taken them by the hand for a while so that they would learn again to walk by themselves, or has it made them anxious and unsure?

What will really matter is whether those in power expect more from people's folly than from their wisdom and independence of mind.

The wish to be independent in everything is false pride. Even what we owe to others belongs to ourselves and is a part of our own lives, and any attempt to calculate what we have 'earned' for ourselves and what we owe to other people is certainly not Christian, and is, moreover, a futile undertaking.

When asked about the extent to which the British decision to quit India was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi's 1942 movement, Attlee's lips widened in smile of disdain and he uttered, slowly, "Minimal."5

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality — no, let me say the unity of their home.

Occultism has no Pope.

Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.