Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Solitude is independence.

Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.

I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

He said that when we finally did get the farm paid for we could tell everybody to go to hell. That was what he lived for, to own his farm without having to say please or thank you to a living soul.

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has set his mind decisively against what is wrong with us.

To be happy means to be self-sufficient.

People naturally despise a dependant.

It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.

He was known through all that country. He had no kin, no ties, and he antedated everyone; nobody knew how old he was—a tall thin man in a filthy frock coat and no shirt beneath it and a long, perfectly white beard reaching below his waist, who lived in a mud-daubed hut in the river bottom five or six miles from any road. He made and sold nostrums and charms, and it was said of him that ate not only frogs and snakes but bugs as well—anything that he could catch.

The purpose of the plan was to make Germany self-sufficient in four years, so that a wartime blockade would not stifle it.

UnLondon would have to look after itself. She wasn't the Shwazzy. She was just someone. How could just someone be any help, whatever was going on?

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.

He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.

This was something I had achieved by myself, without having to depend on anyone. No one could take it away. That's what I want for you, my Tara, my Bela. That's what it really means to be a fortunate lamp.

I took the garland for myself, determined to do on my own what no man dared do for me. Remember that, little sister: wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.