Indipendence Quotes

“The only advise, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this is agreed between us, then I fell at liberty to put forward a few ideas and suggestions because you will not allow them to fatter that independence which is the most important quality that a reader can posses.”
― Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book?

“At the present day, and in this country, as I find by my own experience, a few implements, a knife, an axe, a spade, a wheelbarrow, &c., and for the studious, lamplight, stationery, and access to a few books, rank next to necessaries, and can all be obtained at a trifling cost. Yet some, not wise, go to the other side of the globe, to barbarous and unhealthy regions, and devote themselves to trade for ten or twenty years, in order that they may live,—that is, keep comfortably warm,—and die in New England at last. The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course à la mode.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“اغلب اوقات ((استقلال)) داشتن را بی نیازی تعریف می کنند اما همان طور که گفتم استقلال می تواند به معنای داستن صلاحیت، شایستگی و‌ کاردانی در برآورده ساختن نیازها تعریف شود.”
― Daniel B. Wile, After the Honeymoon: How Conflict Can Improve Your Relationship