Source: The Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Therapeutic 7-Step Self-Help Program for Men and Women, Including How to Choose a Therapist and Find a Support Group

“It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.”

Independence Self Reliance

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

“You've had it the easiest. What good is all your privilege, you soft, spoiled thing, if you can't stand on your own legs?”

Independence Privilege Gansey

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there's no one around to hear it. You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That's how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth.”

Life Lessons

Book:Before I Fall

Source: Before I Fall

“The modern man needs to catch on to the fact that women want to be treated as equals, but only when it suits us. the modern woman's fierce need for independence doesn't mean we want to pay for our half of a meal, or that we don't want a man to hold a door open for us. We still want to be looked after, but on our terms.”

Men Truth Independence Contemporary

Book:This Man

Source: This Man

“I’d rather go and make my own way than have it decided for me.”

Independence Decisions

Book:Pantomime

Source: Pantomime

“A man spent hours watching a butterfly struggling to emerge from its cocoon. It managed to make a small hole, but its body was too large to get through it. After a long struggle, it appeared to be exhausted and remained absolutely still. The man decided to help the butterfly and, with a pair of scissors, he cut open the cocoon, thus releasing the butterfly. However, the butterfly’s body was very small and wrinkled and its wings were all crumpled. The man continued to watch, hoping that, at any moment, the butterfly would open its wings and fly away. Nothing happened; in fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its brief life dragging around its shrunken body and shrivelled wings, incapable of flight. What the man – out of kindness and his eagerness to help – had failed to understand was that the tight cocoon and the efforts that the butterfly had to make in order to squeeze out of that tiny hole were Nature’s way of training the butterfly and of strengthening its wings. Sometimes, a little extra effort is precisely what prepares us for the next obstacle to be faced. Anyone who refuses to make that effort, or gets the wrong sort of help, is left unprepared to fight the next battle and never manages to fly off to their destiny.”

Independence Struggles

Author:Paulo Coelho

“National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.”

Independence Intelligence Conformity

Book:One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

Source: One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

Quote by K.R. Albers

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