Quotes About Self-sufficiency

A person who comes to depend on self-mothering through fantasy, together with self-nourishing habits and routines, develops an illusion of self-sufficiency, of needing nothing from the outside world in terms of love and care. Paradoxically, the more a person relies on this process, the less able one is to function in society and actually satisfy basic requirements for living.

nothing contains all the ingredients of ongoing existence within itself; nothing is self-sufficient.

No creo en la literatura como dietario, como diario de vida, como crónica personal; yo creo en la literatura como literatura, como un mecanismo, como una máquina autosuficiente, al menos con una autosuficiencia grande.

You leave so much behind to do this," I said awkward, thinking of his tools, his half-finished puppets, even the plants growing inside by the window. Despite myself, I felt responsabile for it. Perhaps it was because I was glad that I was not going on alone. He glanced over me and shrugged. "I take myself with me. That's all I truly need, or own.

I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

One learns from the sea how little one needs, not how much. These were our islands now, islands cut off from the world of concrete and steel, from freeways and television

learns from the sea how little one needs, not how much. These were our islands now, islands cut off from the world of concrete and steel, from freeways and television

A very important part of creating a new life was independence. She did not want to be accountable to anyone but herself.

He'd moved out once before and it hadn't worked out; he was still paying off bills from that fiasco, but he didn't seem to realize that it wasn't her goal in life to support him indefinitely.

she had trained him to think she didn't need him.

The three-step farming system that gives our pigs food from our behinds, fertilizer for our dry fields from the pigs' behinds, and a pig that can eventually be eaten.

When you are able to embrace the reality that in any given moment you have everything you need, you'll find a way to be happy with what you have.

I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

Henry glared at Anastasia. 'You quit planning on a rich husband, Anastasia. You're gonna get rich on your own. You and me, if we want husbands, fine. But we won't need them. Like our mothers. My mom could do just fine being a waitress, and your mom could do just fine being an artist. They got husbands 'cos they want them. That Bambie, now maybe she'll need a husband. But not you and me. Got it?

the way of men. One fights one's battles alone, not asking mercy nor expecting help.

I had my father's contempt for the courtier who suspends his life from the fingertips of those in power, looking for morsels. I would be beholden to no man.

Always give yourself an edge, boy. You may never need it, but it saves a lot of worry. Learn to depend on yourself, and if you expect nothing from anybody else you will never be disappointed.

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.

I don't like favors, they oppress and make me feel like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent

Having discarded several older partners, the young man had no real business mentors, heroes, or role models and was beholden to no one.

He would find a home where he would be accepted for what he did, not for who he was, and where he would no longer labor in the shadow of illegitimacy. His relentless drive, his wretched feelings of shame and degradation, and his precocious self-sufficiency combined to produce a young man with an insatiable craving for success.