"You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn't so busy making my own."

Truth Devour, Australian Author

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"Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Independence that has declared its 'independence' from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Self-confident people don't make their self-esteem, self-image, happiness, or self-confidence dependent on another person's approval, validation, or acceptance."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Independence, Self, Opinion, World, Solitude

"The dream is yours. why are you asking others to validate or nourish it? Your journey must be self-propelled. It must be fueled from within."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"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

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"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."

Aulus Persius Flaccus, Italian Poet

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"I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn't so busy making my own."

"Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend."

"Independence that has declared its 'independence' from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy."

"There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all."

"Self-confident people don't make their self-esteem, self-image, happiness, or self-confidence dependent on another person's approval, validation, or acceptance."

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

"The dream is yours. why are you asking others to validate or nourish it? Your journey must be self-propelled. It must be fueled from within."

"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."

"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."

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"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."

"Being in a hurry is the father of stress and worry."

"Being HIV positive doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative."

"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."

"Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours."

"When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time."