Quotes About Independence

Don't try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you

Don't you go through life worrying about whether somebody like you or not, you best be making sure that they do right by you.

The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.

To be more confident you need to give a whole lot less of a shit about that other people think of you.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

George had been surprised by my ability to leave him. He had not seen that in me.

Nothing surprises me now, I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused penis.

Well, you know, just some old man all alone. God, I hope I don't end up alone like that. Some pathetic old woman with nobody to go on a whale watch with.

Freedom was what we had. Nobody told us when to go to bed. Nobody told us to do our homework. Nobody told us we couldn't drink two six-packs of Budweiser and then throw up in the Maytag. So why did we feel so trapped? Why did I feel like I had no options in my life when it seemed that options were the only thing I DID have?

Maybe one of my problems is I never depend upon the kindness of strangers.

I was desperate to show him what I could do on my own. But my father, because he hadn't been there, simply didn't believe what I was actually capable of accomplishing.

Freedom was what we had. Nobody told us when to go to bed. Nobody told us to do our homework. Nobody told us we couldn't drink two six-packs of Budweiser and then throw up in the Maytag.

Put another way, to be more confident you need to give a whole lot less of a shit about what other people think of you. Confidence is not something you feel or possess; it's something others use to describe what they see when they look at you.

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

You know, American alcoholics are pretty fucking hard to insult.

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think.

Please use your liberty to promote ours

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.