“I’m independent and strong, but sometimes…just sometimes, it’s nice to be taken care of.”— Samantha Towle, amazon.com
“Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.”— Ibn Taymiyyah, goodreads.com
“You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I think people should do whatever they want to do. That’s the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You’re not living in their pocket.”— Francesca Anni, independent.ie
“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”— Herman Hesse, amazon.com
“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“If you persistently seek validation from others, you will inadvertently invalidate your own self-worth.”— Dodinsky, facebook.com
“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“I don’t suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don’t trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It’s a sure sign that they don’t really know anyone.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached.”— Ralph Ellison, amazon.com
“You do not need another heart to make yours beat, despite popular misconception.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“Love can come when you’re already who you are, when you’re filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”— Richard Bach, amazon.com
“They did feel it, yet neither spoke of it, for often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.”— Louisa May Alcott, amazon.com
“A lot of parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves.”— Banksky, amazon.com