Quotes About Independence

Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labors...then surely it is a braver, a saner and truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.

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A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

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The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

people don't respond well to being told what they must do.

They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves and where they dream.

Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Liberty is maintained by responsible freedom.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

The era is over when men would trample on us and still have us licking their boots.

I make the other's absence responsible for my worldliness.

A partner can encourage you, maybe even stop you from falling, but they can't get you to the top. That's entirely up to you.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "SELF-RELIANCE

Vagabonding involves taking an extended time-out from your normal life—six weeks, four months, two years—to travel the world on your own terms.

Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.

Vagabonding is about gaining the courage to loosen your grip on the so-called certainties of this world. Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.

vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

One has to remain detached in order to triumph over others

And it is permissible to want to be alone temporarily to "get away from it all." But if one mentioned at a party that he liked to be alone, not for a rest or an escape, but for its own joys, people would think that something was vaguely wrong with him—that some pariah aura of untouchability or sickness hovered round him. And if a person is alone very much of the time, people tend to think of him as a failure, for it is inconceivable to them that he would choose to be alone.