Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Anhelar el amor la hacía sentir como un gato que siempre se enrosca en los tobillos maullando acaríciame, acaríciame, mírame,quiéreme. Preferiría ser el gato que observa todo con descaro desde lo alto de una pared, con expresión inescrutable. El gato que evita las caricias, que no las necesita. ¿Por qué no ser ese gato?

Who puts the food in your mouth? Who goes to the bathroom for ya? You do. You came on this earth alone and you are going to leave alone. Think about it. If anything happens to Jack La Lanne good or bad, I made it happen. If anything happens to you good or bad, you made it happen -- right?

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

We are Shadowhunters. We do not wait to be saved by others. We save ourselves.

You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love.

Faltaba más -dijo-, yo no me debo explicaciones ni a mi mismo.

If I was going to get hurt, or have a hard time, I wanted to do it all alone, with nobody looking.

I felt quite uncentered enough on my own, with no outside assistance.

She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears inside her, slowly, but getting stronger.

I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.

No one is a cup for another to drink from.

Subtly, she was telling him that she had her own life, her own business. An independent woman could always leave.

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence." ? Geraldine Brooks, March

I've inherited a core belief, to wit: don't rely on some other sod for your emotional sustenance. Find something absorbing to do—something so absorbing that you don't have time to dwell on the woe-is-me stuff.

We grow avocados and papayas in our own garden and never need to use insecticide sprays. Of course we like being able to get a suntan without ever being bitten by a mosquito. To be free of those pests, it's worth it to go through the inspections before getting aboard the shuttle from Earth.

With the advent of controlled-environment agriculture it had become nearly impossible for individual farm families to compete economically with the mass-production greenhouses, so in most of the United States it was relatively easy for a young couple to purchase an old farm property and cultivate the soil, not for cash crops, but simply to live independently.

Maybe that, then, is the definition of freedom: to be neither protected by nor tethered to a man who can fix anything.

Don't wait for a genie to grant your wishes. That power is yours.

Dac? sunt mare , sunt pentru c? am avut for?a de a fi singur.

I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a life-long respect for the price of butter and eggs.

...and to be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes.

How can you manage all alone, Mr. Young?" His large, almost girlish eyes rested on her for a moment before he replied, and then it was in the softest and gentlest of voices. "Oh, I get along pretty well with them.