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Independence Quotes
"Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers."
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"I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came."
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"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net."
16
"The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion."
15
"When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves."
15
"Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters."
15
"Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners."
15
"Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights."
14
"On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay."
13
"Do not pay attention to what the people around you are thinking and saying."
13
"I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master."
12
"Squatting on my bed"after twelve years of trying and missing, in about two minutes total"I put my own contacts in for the first time. Second try on the right eye, first try on the left. I blinked in the contact, my apartment where I now lived alone and my story coming into focus."
12
"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."
11
"I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way."
11
"Helplessness didn't have to be my identity, I wasn't condemned to it. I was willing - able - to change. Our enmeshment had been enabled by my belief that I needed [my mom] to help me, to take care of things for me - and to save me - but, back in the home where I'd learned this helplessness, I found I no longer felt that I was trapped in it."
11
"Quit waiting for others to give to you, it is not going to happen."
10
"In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world."
10
"I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself."
10
"Sophie had survived on her own for a long time. She knew she didn't need a man, not even Darius. But she wanted him. That made all the difference in the end."
10
"You're not going to let her do this, are you? Bones snorted. 'Let her? Mate, if you think you can control a woman, you must be single--and a thousand pounds says she beats your arse."
9
"In short, do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself."
8
"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."
8
"A person with a victim complex is incapable of achieving his goal without someone's assistance, advice and prompts."
7
"In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought."
7
"If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one."
7
"A dynamic person can easily grow and become a civil human when they start to live independently."
7
"You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him."
6
"Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it."
6
"He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone."
5
"The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues."
5
"Be independent, ad do what you will."
4
"There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all."
4
"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
4
"No. I can survive well enough on my own- if given the proper reading material."
4
"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."
4
"Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.Childhood is a wilderness."
4
"If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string."
4
"I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn't so busy making my own."
4
"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."
4
"I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type."
4
"As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion."
4
"Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?"
3
"When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves."
3
"Don't let someone rearrange your path because they lost sight of their own."
3
"Be independent, and do what you will."
3
"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 for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence."
3
"Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill."
3
"Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge."
3
"Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over."
3
"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."
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