Quotes about Independence

For each one should carry his own load.

and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.

Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.

nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

I think it's important that folks feel useful and know the value of working. We do no good to any man by giving him everything." "I agree. I saw the damage done

So tell me more about Miss Hannah. Is she your gal?" Tyler asked. "Hardly. She's no one's gal that I can see. She's her own woman through and through." Tyler laughed. "I haven't seen anyone so pretty since leavin' to join up.

Merrill Krause - "My brothers have scared off just about any fellow who showed interest in getting to know me." Granny Lassiter - "Well, if a man can't stand up to those brothers of yours, you needn't even consider him. A man ought to be able to hold his own with his wife's family.

Everyone is indeed crazy but the craziest are those who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.

The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

i am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. that is the true experience of freedom:having the most important thing in the world without owning it.