“ 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… Dan Groat
“ The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal. William Paul Young
“ Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring. Sachin Kundalkar
“ 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 for… Bertrand Russell
“ Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Kahlil Gibran
“ If you're trapped in a room, and nobody is coming to save you, what can you do? You have to bang on the walls and break the windows. You have to climb out and save yourself. It's obvious, Li-ling, tha… Madeleine Thien
“ We are so accustomed to the comforts of "I cannot", "I do not want to" and "it is too difficult" that we forget to realize when we stop doing things for ourselves and expect others to dance around us,… Pandora Poikilos
“ Despite progress witnessed elsewhere in the matters of heart, parents in this part of the world hadn’t quite come around to letting their adult offspring choose their lovers. Pawan Mishra
“ In part, that's because when we delay marriage, it's not just women who become independent. It's also men, who, like women, learn to clothe and feed themselves, to clean their homes iron their shirts… Rebecca Traister
“ I will deny thee nothing: Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this, To leave me but a little to myself. William Shakespeare
“ Be that as it may, I think someday you'll meet a man worth giving up your independence for. Lisa Kleypas
“ To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that he would see whether I knew myself or not." The next day,… Robert K. Massie
“ The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was b… Charles Dickens
“ My soul, be satisfied with flowers,With fruit, with weeds even; but gather themIn the one garden you may call your own. Edmond Rostand
“ Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No words were exchanged beyond the brief lines uttered to this nameless st… Agnes Chew
“ You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still alive and vivid in your mind – almost real – and the reality of your new circumstan… Agnes Chew
“ Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates of death to give life to every man that is born i… Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“ Just reviewing this list, these to-dos and dones, her pace quickens; she feels lighter, she feels smarter, she feels in control, she feels alive. Rumaan Alam
“ He perceived too in these still hours how little he had understood her hitherto. He had been blinded, — obsessed. He had been seeing her and himself and the whole world far too much as a display of th… H.G. Wells
