#independence

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

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#become #financial #gave #hobby #i

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men. ↗

— George Richards Minot

#greater #independence #land #men #possession

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism. ↗

— Said Musa

#did #independence #mean #narrow #nationalism

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way. ↗

— Sherry Argov

#character #independence #strong-woman #attitude