#dependence

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself? ↗

— Connie Willis

#bellwether #fads #humour #independence #independence

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#independence

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#independence

Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people. ↗

— Thomas Davidson

#independence #self-reliance #independence

To find yourself, think for yourself. ↗

— Socrates

#self-reliance #independence

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion. ↗

— Anne Frank

#opinions #independence

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#america #central #congress #declaration #express

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#awareness #based #beings #compassion #idea

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#child #common #constantly #grow #i

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#dependence #derive #mutual #nature #nothing