Quotes About Independence

Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself.

Money gives you independence; but when you start chasing it, it is never enough.

Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself. Illness grabs the soul. You plunge in and out of hope, fearing you will never recover. All that I have been, all that I am, all that I might become no longer exist. I am alone. Nothing can distract from the truth of this finality. How

Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself. Illness grabs the soul. You plunge in and out of hope, fearing you will never recover. All that I have been, all that I am, all that I might become no longer exist. I am alone. Nothing can distract from the truth of this finality.

American culture, perhaps more than any other, prizes individualism. Our narratives of art, politics, and business idolize the person who triumphs against the odds, with only himself or herself to answer to. The lone wolf. The stranger in town. The maverick. The plucky kid. The Final Girl. You've only got yourself, in the end. It's all up to you.

Life's greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

Freedom of thought is the only good that is perhaps more precious than peace, for the simple reason that, without it, peace would merely be another name of servitude.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.

Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom.

Aren't you strong enough to walk alone? We must each of us find God by ourselves.

L'homme se dégagera peu à peu de ce qui le protégeait naguère; de ce qui désormais l'asservit.

et quand tu m'auras lu, jette ce livre - et sors. Je voudrais qu'il t'eût donné le désir de sortir - sortir de n'importe où, de ta ville, de ta famille, de ta chambre, de ta pensée. N'emporte pas mon livre avec toi. ... Que mon livre t'enseigne à t'intéresser plus à toi qu'a lui même, - puis à tout le reste plus qu'à toi.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

I took her hand trembling. Whatever I hope to become later is for you. But Jerome, I may leave you too. My soul went into my words: I shall never leave you. She raised her shoulders slightly: Aren't you strong enough to walk alone? We must each of us find God by ourselves.

Les âmes semblables à la sienne se croient perdues, dès qu'elles ne sentent plus auprès d'elles tuteurs, rampes et garde-fous. De plus elles tolèrent mal chez autrui une liberté qu'elles résignent, et souhaitent d'obtenir par contrainte tout ce qu'on est prêt à leur accorder par amour.

Tennis is the loneliest sport

It was through Peter that she first understood that the world existed before her, without her. For a few days she could not forgive him for this.

He thought back but Bianca, her foot heavy on the accelerator, thought away . From Rose, their mother, their entire past, books and papers and stories and sorrows: let it sink into the ocean. She had her wallet and her sleeping bag and her running shoes and her van; and she drove as if this were the point from which the rest of her life might begin.

Fatevi condizionare il meno possibile da una società che finge di darci il massimo della libertà.

I hope for nothing; I fear nothing; I am free.

If you're looking for pity, forget it, Connie retorted. You've passed up more dates than I care to count. You're married to your work. A pause. And maybe to the past.

I'm not using you. I'm losing me.

While in Europe aspiring Communists were motivated, above all, by the desire to ameliorate social injustices, the East Asian version of Communism had both social and nationalist dimensions. In the 1920s and 1930s, in the era when Kim Il Sung, Mao Zedong, and Ho Chi Minh were young idealists, Communism in East Asia was widely seen as a shortcut to the national revival and modernity, a way not only to solve social problems but also to leapfrog past stages of backwardness and colonial dependency.