Mark Zupan Quotes

I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.

I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

I never put a lot of praise on myself because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself - when I divorced and took control of my life.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?

I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

A great time in my life was being totally single and actively not dating. Just saying, 'I'm gonna not be in a relationship. I'm gonna not date.' That was a super fun, awesome time.

Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.

My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.

I've been on my own and traveling for years now.

I have a fresh start, now that I've turned 18, which feels like such a symbolic age of independence and hopefully a new phase of my life.

It's such a liberating feeling to go out of your comfort zone, to be independent and strike out on my own without my parents.

Going from toting a machine gun in Afghanistan... to using a bed pan, and I can't even put my own socks on - that was hard to kind of suck it up.

There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It's a unique experience and one that is so self-educating.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?