Quotes About Self-sufficiency

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.

I learned, whatever you hung from my earlobes or out on my back, I was insoluble, like same in water. Stir me up, I always rest on the bottom

She never seemed more complete, more sure of herself. Not trying to please anyone anymore. Page 292

Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

I'm emotionally untouchable.

One thing I'd tell an up-and-coming singer is to never rely on other people for anything. The more self-sufficient you can be, the better off you'll be.

We used to live in this little house where the whole of the upper floor was used for chickens. It was four days' walk to the nearest road.

My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don't need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis.

If nobody needs me - and usually, these days, they don't - I'll fall asleep until around midnight. Then I go upstairs and work until 4 A.M., and that's when I go back to bed for good. It suits me.

In most major cities, you can find stores for urban homesteaders. They sell everything you need so that you won't need anything. Sort of a 'Take This Civilization and Shove It' starter kit.

I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.

I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.