Quotes on independence

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”

“Why do I have to tell a story?” I asked.“Because if you don’t tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.”

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”

“We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.”

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.[, 2005]”

“If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.”

“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”

The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth, and your attitude.

You can't live your life for other people. You have to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Freedom is the most important thing in life. The only way to live is to be free.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

You’ve got to learn to stand on your own two feet.

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

If you don’t make a place for yourself, nobody else will.

You’re only as trapped as you choose to be.

He had taken her heart, but it was never his to keep. It was hers, and she would decide when to give it freely.

No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.

I can take care of myself, Hot Shot. Watch your own back.

I do not like the idea of bartering the use of my reproductive system for a man's support.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

You can’t live for everyone else. You have to live for you.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

I want to be left alone, but I want to be noticed.

A fool’s mind is at the mercy of the many, but a wise man knows to follow his own path.