Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One’s own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter.

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

The Phoenix rises in the absence or need of witness.

Independence means.. enjoying freedom and empowering others too to let them do so.

Everything thing I have ever achieved in life I have accomplished on my own – I’ve earned it – even the bad stuff.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

It’s great to have him watching my back without standing in my way.

[F]rom my years of understanding … I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I...

I will never deny that life isn’t fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and...

We’ve done our best to dispel Ankara’s concerns over Kurdish independence movements.

That obstinate sense of independence was the biggest challenge I face in building my little house (that, and not always knowing what I was doing). I was stubborn in the way I hated to ask...

Only by opposing and checking Taiwan’s independence forces can we eliminate the biggest threat harming the peaceful and stable development of ties across the strait.

If the light’s not in you, you’re in the dark.

It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. But on an occasion such as this it was...

An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect.

Be as advertised.

The notion that women shouldn’t care about personal success — or the work that gets them there — is disengenuous; it is impossible for women not to have jobs anymore, so it doesn’t make sense...

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening …

There, did you think to kill me? There’s no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There’s only an idea.Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell.

Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become...

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first...

Miriam felt astonished at herself. It was a new thing for her to step out so independently. Somehow, in the past month a tough little root of determination had been growing in her. Whether it...

A machine! I have become a machine! It has taken over my life. How ironic! In a world of freedom and independence, my entire life now depends on a machine!

She didn’t know what would happen because of this. But she knew that today, she would hurt no one. She threw back her blankets and though only of today.

she didn’t need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surplus jacket and combat bots, she did this without apology. It was a great irony that the very...

I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, ‘To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

I don’t need you to slay my dragons. I can perfectly do it on my own.

Freedom is the atmosphere in which humanity thrives. Breathe it in.

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants...

Make sure that the your remote control always lies with your own self and not in someone else’s hands.

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of your reality is not their reality.

Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.

Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time.

In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got.

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion...

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation...

I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel – let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at...

His aim in going to the U.S. is to engage in ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist activities, interfering in Sino-U.S. ties,

You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That’s not my way.

When you’re completely free, you’re also completely on your own.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous artist name, ZEENA. Her work stems from her experience within the esoteric, shamanistic...

Where we choose to be, where we choose to be–we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that...

I only know how to be one thing. And that’s me. Take it or leave it. I don’t really give a shit.

The thought of being completely dependent disturbs people till the moment their eyes are opened to reality.

Just because someone is a keyholder, does not mean they will always help you unlock the door you want to go through – no matter how much you think you deserve to go through it....

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