I don't like to feel so crazy about someone. I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.
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Quotes tagged ‘Independence’
I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.
You will not be master of my body & my property.
I never want to love someone like that…so much that there would be no room left for myself, so much that I wouldn’t be able to survive if [they] left me.
What I have to do, I can do only alone.
The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his — attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park.
One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independence, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful…
She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank and had midnight swims.
A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but you work as you please, and no man can tell you to go or come. You'll be free and independent, son, o…
To do something very common, in my own way.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent…You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.
Be willing to go alone! Many who started with you won't finish with you.
The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
— Rumi, amazon.com
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance... You have no choice but to accept things as they are, or to seriously seek something else… But you say, ‘I don’t know where to look; I don’t know what to look for.‘ And there’s the crux. Is it wor…
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.
You don’t need a weatherman To know which way the wind blows
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.