...freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen years' slavery. The man who lives on his own land is an independent man. He is his own master. If I can keep my sheep alive through winter and can pay what has been stipulated from year to year - then I pay what has been stipulated; and I have kept my sheep alive. No, it is freedom that we are all after, Titla. He who pays his way is a king. He who keeps his sheep alive through the winter lives in a palace.
Halldór LaxnessTags: freedom solitude independence debt sheep
We are so accustomed to the comforts of "I cannot", "I do not want to" and "it is too difficult" that we forget to realize when we stop doing things for ourselves and expect others to dance around us, we are not achieving greatness. We have made ourselves weak.
Pandora PoikilosTags: self-help self-reliance independence caring comfort-zone
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 distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.
Graham JoyceTags: love marriage relationships independence
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.
Virginia WoolfTags: self-worth fame independence
If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...
William ShakespeareTags: happiness empowerment blessings freedom marriage self-determination independence husbands bachelorhood singles matrimony
Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.
William ShakespeareTags: happiness love empowerment choice marriage pleasure self-determination independence marriage-proposal husbands courtship matrimony dignity wooing
The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near... She was offering her open palm to the crook-eared cat, but he stayed where he was, shivering with the desire to go to her"...[later, Molly asked the cat] "Why were you afraid to let her touch you? I saw you. You were afraid of her."
"If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will... The price is more than a cat can pay.
Tags: cats independence unicorns
In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: individuality empowerment self-esteem solitude ataraxy self-respect self-determination self-reliance self-assurance independence self-awareness self-trust self-sufficiency self-containment
[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to me in marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my prince ... or if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death ... could have drawn or dissuaded me from this kind of life, I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see me. But so constant have I always continued in this determination ... yet is it most true that at this day I stand free from any other meaning that either I have had in times past or have at this present.
Queen Elizabeth ITags: empowerment women choice freedom contentment marriage self-determination independence bachelorhood singles matrimony dignity queens
[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
Queen Elizabeth ITags: virginity women freedom marriage self-determination memory independence government bachelorhood singles matrimony dignity queens sufficiency mementos good-governance reign
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