Quotes About Self-sufficiency

We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

Every pot must sit on its own bottom.

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

In a society in which everyone is assumed and expected to be economically self-sufficient, as an example, doesn't economic dependency almost automatically mean poverty? No attention is given to such issues.)

A reasoning, self-sufficing thing,An intellectual All-in-all!

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

People might think it lonely living on my own nearly all the time, but I never found it lonely. I always had plenty to think about, and anyway maybe I'm not so good on people.

Spoonfeeding in the long run teaches you nothing but the shape of the spoon .

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.

If you are antisocial, far northern Maine is the place for you. Of course, other preferences and characteristics besides not liking to have people around would help as well. You should be rugged, like living off the land, not care very much about eating out and cable TV, and have a healthy disdain for paved roads.

There were larger reasons for Walter Whitman's travails. He was a blunt-spoken worker accustomed to honest self-sufficiency in a time when the market was calling for new traits: slickness and self-promotion, with more than a dash of craft. He might love cattle, children, and living under his own roof, but what he needed in the new environment was an eye for the deal.

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

I am an adult person who is not answerable to children.

I have traveled alone. I am unmarried, I live without a chaperone, and I work for a living. These are not the actions of a lady,

You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.

You need to be able to fill that space on your own, Maddie. You should never have to rely on another person to make you feel whole. That life is dangerous.

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.

When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.

Never allow others to create your world because if you do, they will always make it too small.

You have to be enough for yourself, Maddie. No one else can do it.