I'm single because I was born that way.
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.
Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.