Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself

If you need someone to be around to complete you, it's something missing from inside. Find that first and then get love.

You need your own strength in this life. Your own purpose. You can't simply live for others.

Why should anybody want anybody? Just have nothing, just need nothing.

The Cordans believed the women needed men to provide for them; Moon had no idea why. He knew that Selis in particular was perfectly capable of chasing down any number of grasseaters and beating them to death with a club, so he didn't see why she couldn't hunt for herself.

No era el tipo de humano que preguntaba cosas que podía buscar por sí mismo en la red.

Now, as a wage earner, she had gained a certain grudging respect, but it had been a long time coming. At fifteen, she understood her life better than people three times her age; she needed to keep the peace until she had enough money to set up on her own, or marry herself out of it all.

There's such a fine line between maintaining independence and knowing when you aren't independent anymore.

I leave before being left. I decide.

She sweetened her voice to molasses. "So no, thank you. I won't marry you. And I'd say you're well enough to tend your own house and feed yourself, even though that's women's work.

Many times I asked my grandmother, "Why don't you teach me the language?" Her answer always was: " 'Cause we want you to get an education, to live a good life. Not have a hard time. Not depend on nobody. Times coming up are going to be real hard. You need a white man's education to live in this world. Speaking Indian would only hold you back, turn you the wrong way.

Waiting for someone else to write your history was no way to live. Sometimes it was only a certain way to die.

Ik had bijna gevraagd of jullie een beetje op Bel willen passen, maar ik weet dat zij heel goed voor zichzelf kan zorgen. - Charlie

You have to live without love, learn not to need it in order to live with it.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.

I'd live with loneliness a long time. That was something which was always there... one learns to keep it at bay, there are times when one even enjoys it - but there are also times when a desperate self-sufficiency doesn't quite suffice, and then the search for the anodyne begins... the radio, the dog, the shampoo, the stockings-to-wash, the tin soldier...

Sure,but that don't mean I've got to go far away.On your own has nothing to do with distance.

My mother breast-fed me with powdered milk. It was my first real do-it-yourself project.

when you do for them what they should be doing for themselves, you create entitlement and dependency rather than empowerment.

You know I don't like being told what to do. Then do without being told.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

Opet sam sam. Možda je i najbolje tako, ne o?ekuješ pomo? i ne bojiš se izdaje. Sam. U?init ?u sve što mogu, ne uzdaju?i se u podršku koje nema, i onda je moje sve što postignem, i zlo i dobro.

Opet sam sam. Možda je i najbolje tako, ne o?ekuješ pomo? i ne bojiš se izdaje. Sam. U?ini?u sve što mogu, ne uzdaju?i se u podršku koje nema, i onda je moje sve što postignem, i zlo i dobro.

Nemamo prava da i od koga zahtijevamo da brine naše brige.