Quotes About Self-sufficiency

People would always rather muddle along in their own dim, blundering way than have someone else point out where they were going wrong—even if that other person is clearly brighter.

People don't save other people. People save themselves.

I don't need "support." I need . . . I need . . . It occurs to me that I have no idea how that sentence might end.

You have to be okay on your own before you can have a healthy relationship with another person.

The organic produce guy, a young man who'd left Brooklyn in order to minimize his carbon footprint and consume only things he could make or grow himself. This had come to involve...going toilet-paper free the year before, and making his wife use discarded athletic socks for her monthly cycle.'That poor girl!' said Sylvie, privately resolving to figure out where the young woman was living and anonymously deliver some tampons, the really bad kind, with non biodegradable plastic applicators.

Because there's nothing better than autonomy. Because

We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.

Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me.  I was a hospital in myself.  All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma. Then

The moment people move off land which has directly supported them, the necessities of life are removed from individual control. The things people could formerly produce for their survival must now be paid for.

But when you see yourself as an individual first, you are freed to think for yourself, and you become internally self-sufficient. You start to break free from the bonds of racial conformity, and you start to see the good and bad in everyone, irrespective of their color. You start to be less angry, and as you let go of anger you are empowered to love God, your family, and your country.

Your choice comes from strength, not from dependence. - Justin

Ashoke suspects that Mrs. Jones (the secretary at his new job as a professor) ...is about his own mother's age. Mrs. Jones leads a life that Ashoke's mother would consider humiliating: eating alone, driving herself to work in snow and sleet, seeing her children and grandchildren, at most, three or four times a year.

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.

I feel very strongly about making work pay, about getting people transitioned from welfare to work. Get people skills they need, help they need, so they can get on the ladder of life.

I'm a man without a corporation.

I don't do any corporate work.

I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.

The result of my hard work is that I'm financially independent, I have an amazing life, and I can do whatever I want. I don't have to answer to anybody.

I really wanted to work and become independent.