Quotes About Independence

while Mr. Edwards was in the town, and they had no other minister to preach to them, they carried on public worship among themselves, and without any preaching, rather than invite him.

You cannot deceive me if I'm not looking for anything from you.

The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.

The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think.

There's an old saying: "Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.

If you want your children to grow up to be healthy and independent, you should hold them, hug them, cuddle them, and love them. Give them a secure base and they will explore and then conquer the world on their own.

If you want your children to grow up to be healthy and independent, you should hold them, hug them, cuddle them, and love them. Give them a secure base and they will explore and then conquer the world on their own. The power of love over fear was well expressed in the New Testament: "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear" (1 John 4:18).

Students are treated like candles, which can be extinguished by a puff of wind. The goal of a Socratic education should be to turn them into fires, which thrive on the wind.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune."6

Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.

Yet the split-brain studies were important in psychology because they showed in such an eerie way that the mind is a confederation of modules capable of working independently and even, sometimes, at cross-purposes. Split

People had their own lives. Her children had gone and gotten children for themselves. They'd found places in the world. That alone was proof of a life well lived.

If it was up to me, people unable to live independently would be cared for in small, humane hospitals subject to strong oversight and addicts would be offered clean beds, three squares, and serious detox, and if that didn't work, supervised dosage of drugs.

intentionally ignore the handrail. Midway

Friendship's a fine thing but in the end we all walk alone.

Home was where the heart was and Grace's heart was a hunk of muscle that worked just fine on its own.

They say you don't grow up until you lose your parents. Frankly, I'd prefer to be immature.

Eighty-three years old. A lifetime of being a bachelor. This extended life of aloneness might have an effect on a man's character, might it not? Independence might have rusted into obstinacy.

He [Andrew Haswell Green] wanted to say, Don't go, but he still did not know how. To open himself up to a hard, hurtful truth again seemed the very worst of options. Some people are perhaps meant to live alone.

Yippie ki-yay and all that shit" - Desdemona Fox

I did not and do not want my life tied up in cloak-and-dagger bullshit, dead guys, or pissing contests with either the testosterone crowd in there or some prissy-assed Earl Grey-drinking, scone-munching major who isn't even my freaking boss. I don't know you and I don't give a rat's ass if you trust me.

My Honda revved, shuttered, and broke free of the Chrysler.