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Quotes About Independence

If necessary, I cry. I pray. I rest. I'm fortunate to have quite a few strong, independent, loving, and unbiased women in my life that I can talk things through with.
~ Grace Gealey
I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.
~ Graham Norton
My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.
~ Hakeem Olajuwon
The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.
~ Harriet Lerner
I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.
~ Heath Ledger
I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.
~ Jean Rhys
I've been offered things from alot of different labels and stuff like that, but it's just like, it has to be perfect. I'm not going to sign my life away.
~ Jhene Aiko
Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own.
~ Joan Juliet Buck
Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself.
~ John Flanagan
It's your life; live it well.
~ Judy Sheindlin
I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.
~ Kevin Starr
Whatever it is that you do in your life, you're your own guide.
~ Mariel Hemingway
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
~ Henry David Thoreau
One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.
~ Jaron Lanier
Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
~ Mitt Romney
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
~ Amity Shlaes
But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
~ Julianna Baggott, Fuse
Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.
~ Richard K. Morgan, Thirteen
I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
~ Valerie Trierweiler
It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.
~ Sherry Stringfield
A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.
~ Emily Giffin
It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.
~ Noah Baumbach
To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
~ Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife
I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!
~ Morrissey