C. S. Lewis Quotes

We must get over wanting to be needed.

... I learned the hard way that just as I no longer have to save anyone, neither do I have to be saved.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

I'm so drastically independent; I don't tend to flourish in relationships.

I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, / He travels the fastest who travels alone.

I am still very independent in my real life, and that's why I'm always trying to get out of relationships prematurely.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

You should lead your own life, do what you have to. If people recognize you, it gives you support. If they don't, how does it matter?

I want my kids to be good. I want them to be safe and have a great, long life. And take what they need from me and leave what they don't. Definitely leave what they don't.

Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I got used to it, I'd be reliant all my life.

You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

When you can analyze situations and figure out what's best for you, based on you and not some preconceived notion of what society expects, then nothing is a threat.

It's my life, my career. I'm making all the decisions now.

I don't ever want to have to need someone again - where you feel like, without them, you can't be yourself.

As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl," she said, "you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems."