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"There are times when you have to do things for yourself, not because no one else can do it, but because no one else can do it to the degree you want."
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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."

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

"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."

"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."

"The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues."

"Never let a day be your control factor."

"Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?"

"A person with a victim complex is incapable of achieving his goal without someone's assistance, advice and prompts."
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"Accept loyalty gratefully, and accept betrayal with a smile, knowing that it teaches you life lessons."

"It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me."

"Any empathic person who knows how valuable time is will think twice before wasting another person's time, because losing time is losing a part of your life."

"I feel relieved, reborn, I'm me again.Free from heartbreak, that strong yet invisible chain,That stymied me from living again."

"I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself."

"It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person."
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