Quotes About Self-sufficiency

A person who rarely gets bored, who does not constantly need a favorable external environment to enjoy the moment, has passed the test for having achieved a creative life.

To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments.

I never look for help when I'm the one who loaded the bases.

her self-confidence was one of those markers I've always held up to myself as proof that I had done a decent job as a father, a true indicator that she had grown strong and self-sufficient and would not be buffeted too easily by whatever life threw at her, nor would she shirk those moments when she would have to stand her ground

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

Avoiders have learned to make decisions on their own. As a result, it does not occur to them to include others in the decision-making process. They assess a situation, come to a conclusion, and resolve the problem without ever feeling the need to consult anyone. Those

In the end, your belly was your emperor.

Leave the others if you have to.

Clean up your own mess. Your mama don't live here

Like a rich person, I live with a full-time servant who keeps everything in order—and because the servant is me, there's no invasion of privacy.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

So the city emerges as man's ultimate attempt to become manmade, born from himself rather than from Mother Nature. The feeling of self-sufficiency he achieves through the city is largely abstract and spurious: The sources of our biological lives remain the same as they always were—they come from Matter and Land. But city-man maintains contact with his natural life-sources not through immediate body experience, but through an artificial medium of exchange: money.

Man knew how to feed, clothe, and house himself millenniums before mathematics existed.

Be industrious, let thine eyes be open, lest you become a beggar, for the man that is idle cometh not to honor.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

Free yourself, just as the slave seek for full freedom from his/her master.

Not being under the mercy of someone else. That's what I call true change in life!

Single people are already living in the comfort zone. The majority of them have become too spoiled.

The sun is standing all alone and it is dependent upon itself in almost the same manners as we claim that the Creator is self-dependent.

True independence is freedom in a nutshell.

You are complete as a man or as a woman. In other words, you have been given everything that is required of you to live in this world.

You cannot live your whole life nor base it on the assumption that someone else is going to carry your responsibilities at the finish line.

You don't qualify to be called poor if you are able to feed yourself and you are satisfied with your daily life.

You must be ready to take all your responsibilities upon your head, instead of relying upon someone else to do all the dirty work for you.