Independence Quotes

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.

I Love You! Three words that mean nothing if not followed through with actions. It seems to be more relevant in the terms of showing verses saying. Anyone can say it, because there are different kinds of love. But, few are willing to actually show it. Saying is one thing. Living proof is another.

I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.

And her work! Oh, the thought of being deprived of that! With only his love in return, his love and his amiable domestic tyranny!

You won't be benefited unless & until you give a chance.

Step into your track and begin your steps till you reach the end because life is a personal journey.

Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."

[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]

If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.

Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.

Where we choose to be, where we choose to be-we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.