In Dependence

~ Gottfried

I can be as high maintenance as I want because no one pays my bills except me. You are dependent if you allow the weakness of other people ruin your emotional life. I’ve never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be let alone!’ There is a difference.

In America, anyone can become President, and that’s the problem. Love can make you dependent on someone else for your happiness. What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose. Shame because I often make light of my chemical dependence on caffeine.

I prefer to earn it. It makes me appreciate it more. True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

May we think of freedom, not as a right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. A man without a woman is called a bachelor. A woman without a man is called a genius. Getting into a relationship may seem like a good idea but so was getting on the titanic and look what happened there.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. You don’t get rid of yesterday by talking about it all of the time. You get rid of its effect by moving forward. The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. Then clip them.

I am a recovering person pleaser. Is that okay? A motorcycle is an independent thing. Isn’t it funny how red, white and blue represent freedom until they’re flashing behind you. I’m not good at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment? If a man is talking in the forest, and no woman is there to hear him…

Is he still wrong?

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66 thoughts on “In Dependence”

  3. Another good one! I received a birthday card that said “There is only the future. There is no past. It is gone. As for the present, forget about the present. There is no present. Happy birthday and have a good day”.

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  7. In the forest nothing is wrong except perhaps if the man has a chainsaw. If not, a man is safe in a forest. Even if he is wrong about anything. While in a forest a man cannot hold any negative idea too long. We need, each of us, a forest at the bottom of the garden.

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  9. That is just jam-packed with self-evident truths, and one stood out..
    “The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. Then clip them.”

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