51 quotes
“Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.”
— Beyoncé
“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Do not follow the ideas of others but learn to listen to the voice within yourself”
— Dogen Zenji
“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.”
— Plato
“Do not follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
— Margaret Thatcher
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
— Henrik Ibsen
“He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
— Mark Twain
“I agree with no ones opinion in my family. I have some of my own that serve me well.”
— Ivan Turgenev
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
— Unknown
“To find yourself think for yourself.”
— Socrates
“I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will”
— Charlotte Bronte
“I am too intelligent too demanding and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. The same goes for my peace.”
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
— bell hooks
“The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say the children are now working as if I did not exist.”
— Maria Montessori
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
— Coco Chanel
“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
— Virginia Woolf
“If you meet the Buddha on the road kill him”
— Linji
“People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Remember happiness doesnt depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”
— Dale Carnegie
“I am no bird and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will within my family.”
“I do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me I want to be full on my own and that is healing”
— Rupi Kaur
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear.”
“I am too intelligent too demanding and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.”
“Let me not look for allies in lifes battlefield but to my own strength alone”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction and create.”
“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
— Jose Marti
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
— Aldous Huxley
“The three most harmful addictions are narcotics, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
“Have the courage to use your own understanding.”
— Immanuel Kant
— Winston Churchill
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
— Maimonides
“Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
— Veronica A. Shoffstall
“It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinion it is easy in solitude to live after our own but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude”
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself has adopted the very best plan for living happily.”
“Happiness is an inner job. You do not need anyone or anything to make you happy.”
— Sharon Salzberg
“I do my thing and you do your thing I am not in this world to live up to your expectations”
— Fritz Perls
“When you have faith in yourself you don't need others to believe in you.”
— Lao Tzu
“The great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps the independence of solitude”
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of lifes longing for itself.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.”
— Luther Burbank
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself aloud”
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