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....

Happy Independence Day! Let Freedom Stream!!!

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his...

But he could never be a made guy himself because of his tainted blood, some Sunset Park Puerto Rican on his father’s side, even though he was raised Italian. Chili didn’t care to be made...

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our...

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle,...

A man don’t always have to eat what he’s standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable...

Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.

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.

And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball…

Life with Ilona was invariably lived on two levels, or rather in two simultaneous and parallel directions. On the one hand, your feet were always on the ground, you were always intelligently but not obsessively...

Push to achieve your dreams. Don’t let anyone push you out of dreamland.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves...

Getting married for a few years and then getting divorced is clearly not the path to financial independence.

When you can find your own axis, you can revolve around it, for when you revolve your life on someone outside of you, you lose your own alignment. Just as the earth revolves around its...

Seek out the company of those who will never ask you to jump,” the earth advised.Bertie remembered the rush of feathers as she soared above the audience. “I can catch myself.””Of those whose love will...

You’ve had it the easiest. What good is all your privilege, you soft, spoiled thing, if you can’t stand on your own legs?

If onlyyou could have witnessed howmuch I have changed: sit alonein a disused theatre and feel whatI have felt, see how the world hastransformed me, like the metamorphosisof a caterpillar.

I will come with independence and a fresh perspective.

I don’t like rules, especially the unwritten ones that say I need to let myself be controlled by my man.

We do not deny any nation’s legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it...

I’m lost in space and I want to find a way home. Nobody else can get me back to the planet, so I have to do it myself.

As the war progresses, and as population increases to an even more intolerable level stretching resources to impossible lengths, the strong will begin fighting for their very survival. That’s what we’re seeing right now. Society...

At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously....

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand — they only. Know this at last.

People may advice you, guide you and evaluate what you do, but bear in mind they can’t think for you. You don’t blame people for not thinking for you; blame yourself for depending on them...

I don’t have a ‘side’—I’m responsible for what I say and nothing else.

All my life, I thought I was this independent woman. I was on all the right committees, made speeches for all the right causes, traveled all over the world. I had my little part-time job,...

To know your soul is your own, that’s what counts.

Jo couldn’t even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at...

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.