177 quotes found
“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.”
“Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves.”
“My soul, be satisfied with flowers,With fruit, with weeds even; but gather themIn the one garden you may call your own.”
“If you always depend on others then you'll never succeed. It's best to learn that lesson now.”
“Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being dist...”
“Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. Ones own conscience remains the ultimate...”
“A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.”
“I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.”
“Sun and wind and beat of sea,Great lands stretching endlessly...Where be bonds to bind the free?All the world was made for me!”
“But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.”
“i could go if i wantedshare the floorboards with someonein a place less haunted but i like it hereand im happy to stay in this mess on my ownin this home i have built for myself in my bones”
“What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.”
“Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction to a woman who was able to act independently of them.”
“In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.”
“Were depriving our kids of the chance to do the work of life for themselves.”
“Young adults come to resent the people who did the thinking for them.”
“There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult.”
“Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Wha...”
“I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people. Except for a few years after Martin died. Those were the toughest years, I was alone with my children, I had to cope by myself. Comple...”
“But we-' she glanced at him as if to ascertain his position, 'we see each other only now and then-''Like lights in a storm-''In the midst of a hurricane,' she concluded, as the window shook beneath...”
