#dependent

That's because true travel, the kind with no predetermined end, is one of the most selfish endeavors we can possibly undertake-an act in which we focus solely on our own fulfillment, with little regard to those we leave behind. After all, we're the ones venturing out into the big crazy world, filling up journals, growing like weeds. And we have the gall to think they're just sitting at home, soaking in security and stability. It is only when we reopen these wrapped and ribboned boxes, upon our triumphant return home, that we discover nothing is the way we had left it before. ↗

— Stephanie Elizondo Griest

#cuba #independent #independent-woman #russia #travel

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion. ↗

— Anne Frank

#opinions #independence

And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#conflict

There is no such thing as being too independent. ↗

— Victoria Billings

#independent #such #thing #too

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#appearance #everything #interdependent #reality #something

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#dependent #easily #mechanisms #our #precarious

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#establish #fine #fine thing #greater #heart

I like being independent. I don't think that marriage means you're not independent, but right now I'm very comfortable, and I'm probably the happiest I've ever been. I feel solid. I feel safe. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#being #comfortable #ever #feel #happiest

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters. ↗

— Jack Levine

#characters #independent #individualists #like #most

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#become #dependent #energy #fact #fossil