Quotes About Independence

Not that her life had been unhappy, it had just not been her life at all.

she covered her ears with her hands, for fear that old custom of obeying other people's plans for her should prevail yet again.

Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?

I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.

Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.

then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.

according to Chanakya, being dependent on someone is most painful. Such a person can be compared to an animal. He has to act on someone elses orders. So, man should live life with strength.

being dependent on someone is most painful. Such a person can be compared to an animal. He has to act on someone elses orders. So, man should live life with strength.

I try to live without interfering in the lives of others because I have no wish for them to interfere in mine.

How does the old cliché go? When every Arab girl stood in line waiting for God to hand out the desperate-to-get-married gene, I must have been somewhere else, probably lost in a book.

How can she tell the difference between freedom and unburdening?

I'll admit that I'm not fond of children. They stick to you like burrs, and tearing them off is cumbersome. I don't dislike them. I simply prefer them not to be around.

am alone. It is a choice I've made, yet it is also a choice made with few other options available. Beiruti society wasn't fond of divorced, childless women in those days. Still, I made my bed—a simple, comfortable, and adequate bed, I might add.

Your legacy. Hard work but honest. You don't have to outsmart anybody or depend on anyone when you own one plot of land. 'Cause it's always there.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

If no one responds to your call, then go your own way alone.

By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world. But it is otherwise with thy love which is greater than theirs, and thout keepst me free. Lest I forgot them they never venture to leave me alone. But day passes by after day and thou art not seen. If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where the honey-sipping hummingbird rocks himself on the end of the thinnest branch, I will flower out as a champa.

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

But the beauty which Paresh Babu saw in her face was not that of complexion or features, but of the soul which there found its expression,—not just the pleasantness of a faultless shape but the firmness of strength, the brightness of independence,—characteristics which attract a chosen few, but repel most others.

Now losers have this advantage, that though their own folk disapprove of them they are generally popular with everyone else. Having no work to chain them, they became public property. Just