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Quotes About Independence

Don't let your life wait for other people.
~ Martin Niemoller
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.
~ Bob Dylan
I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
~ Sally Ride
The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.
~ Che Guevara
Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
~ Ann Richards
I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.
~ Agnes Varda
You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.
~ Charlize Theron
That's the best way to live your life: Don't listen to what other people think. Just follow your heart.
~ Chris Jericho
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
~ Henrik Ibsen
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
~ Epicurus
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
~ Eudora Welty
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings
~ Robin Hobb
I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
~ Taylor Momsen
There are real indignities and real problems when all facets of life are controlled –when to get up, to eat, to shower-and chemicals are put inside our bodies against our will.
~ Judi Chamberlin
One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
~ Michael Palin
Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.
~ Joel Osteen
One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.
~ Robert H. Jackson
The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves.
~ George Carlin
Live life on your own path. Everybody's got something different. You can't keep up with all those people, so you better keep up with yourself.
~ Kimora Lee Simmons
With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.
~ Peter Shepherd