Emotional Independence Quotes

#1. The grass is often no greener on the other side, so stick it out and see if you can grow up within the relationship. Find happiness and emotional independence within yourself before placing unreasonable and often unexpressed expectations on your spouse.

Malti Bhojwani

#2. Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we feel comfortable doing by our need to please others.

Sue Thoele

#3. Stronger! stronger! grow they all, Who for Coca-Cola call. Brighter! brighter! thinkers think, When they Coca-Cola drink. - Coca-Cola advertising slogan, 1896

Tom Standage

#4. Anything but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination, to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock pickers to negotiate a compromise with the 'mystery tramp,' as Bob Dylan put it ...

Dennis Overbye

#5. Because of the way society sets them up, women never again experience the need to develop independence - until some crisis in later life explodes their complacency, showing them how sadly helpless and undeveloped they've allowed themselves to be.

Colette Dowling

#6. So the fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Anxiety causes a physical reaction that causes endless symptoms in the physical body that you literally can not control.

Jessica Gadziala

#8. When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.

Martin Luther

#9. I had a good friend in New York City.

Hank Williams Jr.

#10. Are you going to be making a point any time soon, or are you holding up the game to brag about your detective skills?

Tarryn Fisher

#11. Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

Helene Deutsch

#12. To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

James A. Garfield

#13. The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

Karen Horney

#14. Money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth.

Olivia Mellan

#15. 505If nothing ever changed,
there'd be no such thing as butterflies.

Wendy Mass