The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent’s own independence.

We’re better together than we are apart. The American Dream has us looking out for ourselves even at the expense of our neighbors. That shit ain’t true, man.

You may be operating from the belief that you must do everything yourself because no one will ever be there for you. Or you may think that if you never speak up you’ll avoid being...

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Because two people in love don’t make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It’s about being separate and still loving each...

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it’s every girl for herself.

We talk of independence. No man is independent. We are all interdependent; and we shall only rise as we carry others with us, and as we are assisted by others.

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms...

We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.

As a matter of fact, that’s the reason why I’ve learned to speak this language, and to write it too: so I can speak in the place of a dead man, so I can finish...

God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable.

Language … has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.

I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn’t so busy making my own.

At a trade show, someone said, “You’ll get in trouble for that.” I replied,”Are they going to call the trade show police?

LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say ‘Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you...

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable...

I am not an angel,” I asserted; “and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

My opinion has always been this. That you ought never to give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air...

I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made up chiefly of editors, and men who are politicians by profession; but I...

Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being...

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

Protection of Iraq’s territorial integrity, independence and might is of special significance to Iran,

It is our calling to recapture the lost independence and sovereignty of our republic, to clean up all that pollutes our culture, and to heal the soul of America,

It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. … That was the...

Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body’s obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality.

The struggle for political independence is the demand of Tamil people, … The question whether we accept the hegemony of the Sri Lankan government has not arisen.

I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

Strange things are happening to us.’‘To our children.’‘They sayhe is looking for the spirit of Independence.’‘They say he is looking for himself.’‘For his ownspirit.’‘Which he lost when the white man came.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

My cup was already brimming before I met him —after it runneth over.

I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come.I’m free, and against organized, clothed society.I’m naked...

Independence is a good hitting team. This is a big win for us.

If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn’t yet see. For once she became his wife, she would be his forever. And, no matter how much...

Don’t trust inanything that has life, else you’lllose your life and dive into a beehive, and get stung..

…Goddamn himself for letting his independence slip away from him. He didn’t even know how it had happened, how he had lost the ability to function on his own, or what the hell he was...

I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life’s restrictions and parameters.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the...

You can love people, and you can befriend them, but the only person you can ever one hundred percent depend on is yourself.

People will always walk their own road and you cannot drag them onto yours. But, if you happen to wander into the path of a good person, you best take your mask off and shine...

While the Zionists try to make the rest of the World believe that the national consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jews again slyly dupe the...

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it...

…no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

There are some who want to get married and others who don’t. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.