"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."

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"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Independence, Alone, Sun, Rise, Side

"Don't let someone rearrange your path because they lost sight of their own."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Independence, Path, Individual, Control, Decision

"Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Independence, Youth, Freedom, Addiction

"She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

Independence, Freedom, Identity, Change, Love

"I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Independence, Rejection, Boundaries, Freedom, Choice

"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Independence, Self-Belief, Dreams, Leadership, Empowerment

"Very often it seems that people assume that by cutting the wings of others, it becomes easier to love them. They know so little about love that end up creating a perception of love that is devilish and demoniacal. And I end with no other choice but to remain single and let them go."

Robin Sacredfire, Portuguese Philosopher

Independence, Love, Control, Freedom, Loss

"She wasn't kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Independence, Love, Power, Freedom

"For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

Independence, Freedom, Solitude, Thought

"Do not pay attention to what the people around you are thinking and saying."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Independence, Self-awareness, Focus, Growth

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"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."

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"Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!"

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"The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship."

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"It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man."

Truth, Effort, Man, Worth

"They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds."

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"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."

"Don't let someone rearrange your path because they lost sight of their own."

"Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more."

"She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity."

"I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been."

"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."

"Very often it seems that people assume that by cutting the wings of others, it becomes easier to love them. They know so little about love that end up creating a perception of love that is devilish and demoniacal. And I end with no other choice but to remain single and let them go."

"Do not pay attention to what the people around you are thinking and saying."

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"Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone."

"Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever."

"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."

"For the will and not the gift makes the giver."

"For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity."

"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."

"Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!"

"The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship."

"It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man."

"They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds."