Rudyard Kipling Quotes

I think all kids should have something they feels is theirs.

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

I don't belong to anyone.

It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

When we were kids, we couldn't wait to have our own rooms, not to have to share anymore. And that is what I love about having my own bedroom. It is mine. My sleep is mine. Both pillows are mine. If I wake up, it is me who has woken me up... It makes me feel like a grown-up. I love it.

The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.

Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.

Let no one who can be his own belong to another.

Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

I think it's good if a man gives a woman some time to herself because I think we all need that and we can all benefit from that. It doesn't imply a rejection of the other person, just a sense that because we do have our separate identities, sometimes you have to be less involved in another person's life or need to have that other person be less involved in your life.

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

I live in my own bubble. I'm in Gublerland.

I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice.

It's important to have your own space. I've never trusted people who do everything together. I call them "Kool-Aid Couples," because it's like they drank the same Kool-Aid and it's drugged them into constantly gazing into each other's eyes.

It isn't love when another person cannot give you the space to live your own life.

If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.