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...

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn’t know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you.”He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt,...

I don’t want to have to save your life,’ Chord says softly. ‘Not when you can do it.

I value my ownindependence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than thatof having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturingme, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions....

I’m myself, not a label.

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

I’m single because I was born that way.

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the...

We are so accustomed to the comforts of “I cannot”, “I do not want to” and “it is too difficult” that we forget to realize when we stop doing things for ourselves and expect others...

The material world is all feminine. The feminine engergy makes the non-manifest, manifest. So even men (are of the feminine energy). We have to relinquish our ideas of gender in the conventional sense. This has...

For millions it was a banner of independence,

You can’t criticize Independence Air’s management for trying something, but it was apparent it wasn’t working after a month. They should have changed it then, but they were all too busy drinking the Kool-Aid.

Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the...

Milton’s Eve! Milton’s Eve! … Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not … I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and...

I am living breathing freedom

And I wonder how the leaves clinched to the branches, yet to fall, the survivors feel when they see one of their own perish and realise that they too are to share a similar fate,...

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one...

She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.

The critic said, but don’t you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.

Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?

the necessary independence from partisan factions.