Independence Quotes - Page 3

The thought of being completely dependent disturbs people till the moment their eyes are opened to reality.

Be as advertised.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

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?

Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has - from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Independence has made us Soft

I can take care of myself,” I said hotly.

“Darlin, you don't even know how to pleasure yourself.

Never force a man to do your wish, but let them wish to do it by force.

In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.

If you're waiting for me to declare my undying love for you, I can't do that yet, blood-bond or no blood-bond. If you think I'm the swoony type of heroine you find in romance novels, who'll fall into your arms just because you saved me from an alternate reality or whatever, get ready to leave empty handed, because I don't want to be caught.

A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine as the basis from which all the practices spring. Therefore, Tantra is by its nature, the understanding that all phenomenal existence, the universe, or cosmos, that we experience is feminine in nature.

There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices and the way that they practice, that to society in general, it may have the appearance of breaking social norms but in fact that is just the manifestation of the progress of their practice.

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. One’s own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter.

Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.

Push to achieve your dreams. Don't let anyone push you out of dreamland.

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.