Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Zij kon zich niet overgeven aan een plan dat ze niet zelf had gemaakt, aan een koers die een ander voor haar bepaalt.

Are you happy by yourself?" "I'm used to it," he said. "That don't mean I like it.

Do you have a girl? Where's your girl? Where's your girl?" "She's her own girl

I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

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

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

Keep yourself to yourself.

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference.

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

But the root of all sin is self-sufficiency—independence from the rule of God. When we fail to wait prayerfully for God's guidance and strength, we are saying with our actions, if not with our words, that we do not need him. How much of our service is actually a "going it alone"?

Everyone is a puppet, but there are no puppet-masters.

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests as backyard gardens, greenhouses and community spaces.

Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles.

He looked fit and healthy, a vibrant seventy-something. The kind of man who was superb at caring for himself. Organic food and facial peels and a weekly massage at the racket club. The kind of man who marveled at why others couldn't just keep their heads above water like he did, who didn't understand that if you don't have any boots, you can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

each of us is whole and complete unto ourselves.

Mixed into your memories You are fortified for life And you don't need anyone anymore.

Calitatea ta uman? nu trebuie s? depind? de a celorlal?i

Of the autistically interior, dreaming, reading, erotic, self-sufficient child in Balthus' painting we have practically no image at all. Balthus' children are not being driven to succeed where their parents failed, or to be popular, adjusted, or a somebody.