Independence Quotes

Breaking your family's heart was the price you paid for rescuing your own.

~ Sana Krasikov

When a child reaches adolescence, there is very apt to be a conflict between parents and child, since the latter considers himself to be by now quite capable of managing his own affairs, while the former are filled with parental solicitude, which is often a disguise for love of power. Parents consider, usually, that the various moral problems which arise in adolescence are peculiarly their province. The opinions they express, however, are so dogmatic that the young seldom confide in them, and usually go their own way in secret.

~ Bertrand Russell

I, too, was fiercely independent and thought I could make two equal four.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.

~ Sachin Kundalkar

Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

~ Napoleon Hill

I value my ownindependence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than thatof having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturingme, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He mightbe the wisest of men, or the most powerful--I should equally rebel andresent his interference...

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

~ William Paul Young

Governments have absolutely no interest in self-reliance. It defeats one of the purposes for their existence. They encourage and thrive on dependency. The more of it they sell, the more necessary they are, and the more power and money they need.

~ Dan Groat

They resented the patronage they depended upon.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

...it is not enough to be freeof the whips, principalities and powers

~ Edward Kamau Brathwaite

The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.

~ Albert Camus

Almost two hundred sixty-six years ago on my home world, Earth, my forefathers did the same thing. They declared their independence and free agency from an enemy that oppressed them. No one at that time expected this rebellion force to win the war. They were severely outnumbered, and they were extremely inexperienced compared to their enemy. Despite those odds, they succeeded in winning the war, giving them their independence and freewill to choose. (Adrian Palmer, Worlds Without End: The Mission)

~ Shaun Messick

In fairy tales the evil characters disappear or die, in reality, evil spreads while you wait for your hero on a horse, only to realise the sword to save yourself was always in your hand...

~ Seja Majeed

Independence means.. enjoying freedom and empowering others too to let them do so.

~ Vikrmn

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The courage of one can change the course of all.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

To share our independence, to me, is synonym with “maturity”. Maturity means the combination of courage—to do something—and consideration—to stop doing that when it’s required. Kind of like the gas and brake in a vehicle.“To depend on Love isn’t the same as to depend on a single person to feel that connection towards Love. The more Love that flows through any given relationship, the more love that can flow towards other relationships, in contrast, a lack of Love in a relationship calls us to look out for anything else that could make us feel connected, feel accepted.“Most people aren’t ready for the kind of commitment and dedication required to ‘merge’ in someone else while retaining their individuality, and after a very short time, they feel suffocated and abandon such relationship.“In order to identify when we are receiving this energy from a particular—limited—individual, or when it is coming from Source, the Love that flows from Source is unlimited and increases constantly, whilst the other one needs constant recharge to continue to function. It’s as clear as the difference between sunlight and a torchlight.

~ Nityananda Das

Even the Sun gets tired of rising, but he does it out of love for the Earth...

~ Seja Majeed

Live for what you love, and die for what you're unwilling to live without...

~ Seja Majeed

We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves...

~ Seja Majeed

She didn't know what would happen because of this. But she knew that today, she would hurt no one. She threw back her blankets and though only of today.

~ Kristin Cashore

If you don’t want to get stuck where you don’t want to be, have the courage to do difficult things.

~ Marci G. Fox

When people tell you that you can’t live your way, don’t believe them.

~ Louise Hayes

I could never, I knew then, lose myself in love. Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatural, unbalanced, perhaps, but it was true: Without intellect, there could be no love.

~ Laurie R. King

In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.

~ Zeena Schreck

Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.

~ Mandy Hale

Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.

~ Mandy Hale

You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.

~ Mandy Hale

So many people are so terrified to be alone that they settle for a loveless relationship or stay trapped in a miserable one for months and even years on end. But as it turns out, alone means unique, unequaled, and unexcelled. Or in other words: Unparalleled. Unrepeatable. Unable to be imitated or duplicated. Brave. FABULOUSLY ORIGINAL.

~ Mandy Hale

Happily Single is permission to CHOOSE your life rather than having it handed to you, and it’s living life on your own terms instead of those that are expected of you.

~ Mandy Hale

I can take care of myself,” I said hotly.“Darlin, you don't even know how to pleasure yourself.

~ Nenia Campbell

I Love You! Three words that mean nothing if not followed through with actions. It seems to be more relevant in the terms of showing verses saying. Anyone can say it, because there are different kinds of love. But, few are willing to actually show it. Saying is one thing. Living proof is another.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.

~ Amit Kalantri

We are bent on weakening bonds in the name of growth and independance,then spend out adulthoods wondering why we have trouble getting close to other people.

~ Elizabeth Hormann

Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.They come through you but not from you,And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.You might give them your love but not your thoughts,For they have their own thoughts.

~ Kahlil Gibran

There was a basic harmony between Antonia and her mistress [Mrs. Harling]. They had strong, independent natures, both of them. They knew what they liked, and were not always trying to imitate other people. They loved children and animals and music, and rough play, and digging in the earth. They liked to prepare rich, hearty food and to see people eat it; to make up soft white beds and to see youngsters asleep in them. They ridiculed conceited people and were quick to help unfortunate ones. Deep down in each of them there was a kind of hearty joviality, a relish of life, not over-delicate, but very invigorating. I never tried to define it, but I was distinctly conscious of it. I could not imagine Antonia's living for a week in any other house in Black Hawk than the Harlings.

~ Willa Cather

My aim is to sort the jumble of information we throw at these children and present it in such a way that they will have a greater chance of achieving independence and fulfilment.

~ Adele Devine

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

~ Betty Friedan