Independence Quotes
A steely look of anger flared in my mother’s eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.
Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow.
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.
Independence' is a magic word, because nowhere in the Cosmos does it actually exist.
Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly...Where be bonds to bind the free?All the world was made for me!
The thought of being completely dependent disturbs people till the moment their eyes are opened to reality.
i could go if i wantedshare the floorboards with someonein a place less haunted but i like it hereand i’m happy to stay in this mess on my ownin this home i have built for myself in my bones
I suppose the test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
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.
Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.
In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.
To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days.
Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.
Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.
It was like diving into winter waves. "I can't, " I told him."Why not?""Because I need to find out who I am by myself before I can be with anyone else.
When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves.
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.
The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.
What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.
We’re depriving our kids of the chance to do the work of life for themselves.
Young adults come to resent the people who did the thinking for them.
There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult.
Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins
The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.
When someone says you can't, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can't.
Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourthof July, I'll bow and remember you. Whoshall we follow next? Who shall we killnext time?
I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters.
Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child
Don't let someone feel like they are following you and don't let yourself feel like you are following someone.
Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.
What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master!
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.
Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
According to an original reading of the Constitution and Declaration, the intrusiveness that is an inevitable part of big government is an offense against its people.
Malcolm X and Edmund Burke shared an appreciation of this important insight, this painful truth--that the state wants men to be weak and timid, not strong and proud.
In case nobody has told you, " she said, "this is the United States of America, where nobody has a right to rely on anybody else--where everybody learns to make his or her own way.
Since Ireland’s independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America.
The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.
Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams.
