“My aim is to sort the jumble of information we throw at these children and present it in such a way that they will have a greater chance of achieving independence and fulfilment.”
Source: Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
“I worry that independence will never feel safe again.”
Source: Unavoidable Circles
“When you streamline your schedule by making deliberate decisions about tasks and activities that are crucially important you and identify your most important priorities, you give yourself permission to make choices that excite and interest you. You also grant yourself permission to exercise your right to say, “No, thank you.”
Source: Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide
“The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born”
Source: Independent People
“You may be operating from the belief that you must do everything yourself because no one will ever be there for you.
Or you may think that if you never speak up you’ll avoid being rejected. Both these fears no longer apply to you today as an adult.
If you never reach out for help, you will continue to deprive yourself.”
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.”
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?”
“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.”
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.”
Source: This Man
“I’d rather go and make my own way than have it decided for me.”
Source: Pantomime