Quotes About Independence

Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!' said Jimmy longingly. 'How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!

El verdadero amor no es apego, no encadena ni se encadena; más bien libera y se libera. Quienes se aman de verdad no necesitan estar pegados como siameses

I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.

la libertad es un recurso que sólo existe en primera persona. La libertad no puede ser dada por alguien más: es algo que la persona misma debe tomar.

Quien tiene educada la voluntad es más libre y puede llevar su vida hacia donde quiera.

podemos decir que la maduración de la personalidad consiste en lograr un equilibrio entre los factores disposicionales y vivenciales, con el fin de alcanzar grados sucesivos de libertad, independencia, conocimiento de uno mismo y de la realidad, así como en elaborar un proyecto de vida bajo los auspicios de la razón y la voluntad.

Pero mientras vivás acobardada por la opinión ajena nunca serás libre de verdad. Solo se puede ser feliz de espaldas al mundo.

Sólo dejaban huella en el mundo los hombres audaces, los rebeldes con alteza de miras, no las hormigas laboriosas que ascendían por escalafón.

Lo que hace soportable la vida es la idea de que podemos elegir cuándo escapar.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

El estudio de la naturaleza no forma jactanciosos artífices de la charlatanería ni ostentadores de la cultura por la que pugna la mayoría, sino espíritus independientes, capaces, orgullosos de sus propios bienes y no de los que surgen de las circunstancias.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.

The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.

A free man cannot acquire many possessions, because this is no easy feat without becoming a hireling of mobs or dynasts. And yet he has a constant abundance of everything, and if he should chance to gain many possessions, he could easily portion them out so as to win his neighbors' good will.

Tudo o que você pode fornecer a si mesmo para garantir proteção contra os homens é um bem natural.