51 quotes
“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”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of lifes longing for itself.”
— Khalil Gibran
“He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”
— Virginia Woolf
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
— Winston Churchill
“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.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Have the courage to use your own understanding.”
— Immanuel Kant
“People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Do not follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
— Margaret Thatcher
“Remember happiness doesnt depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”
— Dale Carnegie
“Do not follow the ideas of others but learn to listen to the voice within yourself”
— Dogen Zenji
“Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.”
— Luther Burbank
“I am too intelligent too demanding and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.”
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction and create.”
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
— Mark Twain
“When you have faith in yourself you don't need others to believe in you.”
— Lao Tzu
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.”
— Beyoncé
“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
“I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will”
— Charlotte Bronte
“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
“I do my thing and you do your thing I am not in this world to live up to your expectations”
— Fritz Perls
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear.”
— Unknown
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“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
“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself has adopted the very best plan for living happily.”
“I agree with no ones opinion in my family. I have some of my own that serve me well.”
— Ivan Turgenev
“If you meet the Buddha on the road kill him”
— Linji
“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
“The great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps the independence of solitude”
“The three most harmful addictions are narcotics, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
“Happiness is an inner job. You do not need anyone or anything to make you happy.”
— Sharon Salzberg
“To find yourself think for yourself.”
— Socrates
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself aloud”
“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.”
“I am no bird and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will within my family.”
“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
— Jose Marti
“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
“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
“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
— Henrik Ibsen
“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
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