Quotes About Independence

I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

You get to the point where you decide that you don't want to be a victim anymore and that you're not going to live your life like that.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

I wouldn't marry Giddon to save my life," Katsa said. "Not even to save yours." "Well." Raffin's eyes were full of laughter. "I'd leave that part out.

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

I can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

I refuse to live a conventional life.

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy.

I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.

There's just this stage in a guy's life where they need to be free and have fun and just be independent and enjoy their life.

You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.

It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.

We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.

Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.

I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.

My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.