independence Quotes

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

Liberation does not come from outside.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.