Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.

Anything your reader can do for himself leave to him.

Que as pernas também são pessoas, apenas inferiores aos braços, e valem de si mesmas, quando a cabeça não as rege por meio de idéias. As minhas chegaram ao pé do muro.

No food without blood and sweat." "Farmers are busy; farmers are busy; if farmers weren't busy, where would grain to get through the winter come from?" "In winter, the lazy man freezes to death." "Don't depend on heaven for food, but on your own two hands carrying the load." "Useless to ask about the crops, it all depends on hard work and fertilizer." "If a man works hard, the land will not be lazy.

Italian Roseto. Roseto, Pennsylvania, was its own tiny, self-sufficient world—all but unknown by the society around it—and it might well have

Man is an end in himself.

If you always depend on others then you'll never succeed. It's best to learn that lesson now.

They will turn you over, toss you about, fob you off, take you less seriously, because to get there, you must walk on your own feet.

God has provided food for every bird, but He doesn't throw it in their nests

We are already abundant, we have everything we need within us, to live a purposeful and fulfilling life.

You were never born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Don't think that way. You were born with a diamond spoon in your palm. Carry it by your own hand. Now, feed yourself

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn't ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

The world is full of men who are attracted to women but aren't really interested in them. Weak women sometimes give in to men like that. As it happens, I don't need a man. I live alone. I work, I read books, and I listen to music. Sometimes I have a visitor in the evening. Sometimes on another evening I have a different visitor. They come and they go. I'm self-sufficient.

They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.

On 24 April 1970 we bought a house in Myasnoye. The one we wanted. Now I don't care what happens. If they don't give me any work I'll sit in the country and breed piglets and geese, and tend my vegetable patch, and to hell with the lot of them

Nothing tastes better than what one eats by oneself.

No one could rival Author Less for his ability to exit a room while remaining inside it. He sat, and his mind immediately left me behind...I was too much in law of his self-sufficiency, of his freedom. To disappear within himself for ten or fifteen minutes while I drew him, when I could barely sit still to hold the pencil.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

she'd rather be alone than cling to people she didn't care about.

I was feeling fine without it.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened- good, bad, or anywhere in between- it was always, if nothing else, all your own.