Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance?

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.

Being on your own sometimes is appealing.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you're on your own.

People should just let me be.

I try to go through my life not owing anything to anyone.

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

You have to do things for yourself, not for anybody else.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

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

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.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.