Never force a man to do your wish, but let them wish to do it by force.

I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence.” -Amya

Freedom is essential to the pursuit of happiness. Freedom is essential to artistic evolution and expression. Freedom is essential to the expansion of the human mind. Freedom is essential to the development and application of...

Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.

For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim.

I fail to find even one “Netaji” among the several thousand “Netas” of today. India needs our sacrifices once more and my entire life is and will remain dedicated to the service of my country.

When people tell you that you can’t live your way, don’t believe them.

Scotland can exist fully if we dream hard enough, Julie. I just can’t relate to that Scottish deep-fried-chip-on-the-shoulder. Trainspotting was wrong: it feels fucking great being Scottish. We’re becoming something, Julie. I can feel it....

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

I don’t want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

so-called Taiwan independence.

Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child

She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different.

To be successfully independent, you must view life as if all of your love ones are dead and the world is against you.

A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine as the basis from which all the practices spring. Therefore, Tantra is by...

I think if we return to the values that we talked about on (Independence) Square, but not the adventurism that structures of power had begun to carry out, I will extend my hand to anyone,

The seven honorees being recognized at this year’s event have consistently demonstrated the highest levels of transparency, independence and accountability on behalf of their shareholders, and each is being honored for his or her career...

[Mo] sapeva che a Caterina, Cecilia e Maria, quando avessero messo piede su Deneb, nessuno avrebbe chiesto di compilare un modulo sbarrando la F. e non la M. per relegarle di conseguenza in uno scompartimento...

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me – for you...

If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.

Independence has made us Soft

My soul, be satisfied with flowers,With fruit, with weeds even; but gather themIn the one garden you may call your own.

A good relationship does not celebrate dependence; it nurtures the spirit of independence. Fall in love with yourself and commit to your goals, dreams and desires, that’s the most important relationship you can be in.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

To have an independant mind, to think for oneself, not to follow fashion, not to seek honour or decoration, not to become part of the establishment

Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…you give them a piece of you. They don’t ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss...

You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves.

…how he loved and yetwished to leave you: always both, at once.

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.

Thinking this is “The One” becomes an excuse to let your own life deteriorate.

Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man’s independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a...

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction to a woman who was able to act independently of them.

If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is their cousin. Her hair is dyed autumn red or aubergine or Egyptian henna,...

It will provide us independence from the grid, from regional pricing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.

I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

I’d rather die my way than live yours.

The ministry can affect our independence through delayed disbursements or reallocation of the budget.

Years ago, a group of good, wise, brave, God-fearing men stood up to claim and defend the human right for independence. Those men are now dead. Their work is not. But if good, wise, brave,...

Live for what you love, and die for what you’re unwilling to live without…

If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.

To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, “so that he would see whether I knew myself or not.” The next day, she...

Je réclame l’indépendance dans l’interdépendance.

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest...