Quotes About Self-sufficiency

There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.

Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way.

Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.

As long as your name is NOT Jesus, I CAN live without you

My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.

Grown men do not need leaders.

I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

The only real security is the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Freedom is the absence of influence.