Quotes About Self-sufficiency

I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.

Nothing really bothers me. I'm too engrossed in my own world to care less.

I want to produce. I want to direct. I want to be my own camera man. I want my own boxing club. I have it all written down. I want to do everything.

I'm definitely an independent person, and I don't need boyfriends all the time.

I know where my bread is buttered, and for the most part, I'm better off doing my own thing.

I'm my own man. I'm Brian Flores.

I never ask anyone for anything. I've just not been brought up like that.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.

There's danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, 'My life is a little harder than it used to be.' At a certain place you've got to say to the people, 'Suck it in and cope, buddy. Suck it in and cope.'

I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost.

I'm someone who doesn't often ask for help, just suggestions.

It will be very foolhardy and suicidal for a country like India to forgo food security.

I haven't tried to model myself on anyone. I have my own action, and that suits me.

Be your own father, young man

Character is that which can do without success.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding

Fully-realized human beings—those in harmony with their Source—are complete in themselves. They don't need anything outside themselves to be made whole.

Don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none.

No longer do we look outside of ourselves for solutions. We have seen where the path lies. All we require are the skillful means that will help us walk it.

A woman is not dependent on her husband for health, peace, joy, inspiration, guidance, love, wealth, security, happiness, or anything in the world. Her security and peace of mind come from her knowledge of the inner powers within her and from the constant use of the laws of her own mind in a constructive fashion.ph

Milarepa was. "He's the Buddhist meditation master who lives in those mountains. He has tamed his mind, so he is always comfortable. He knows his own nature, so he doesn't need confirmation from others. He is completely content with whatever he has, so he never needs anything. That makes him the richest man in the world.

This determination to manage—to cope—to do as much unassisted as possible—is the Widow's prerogative. You might argue that it's a sign of her wish to appear to be—which is not the same as being—self-sufficient; or you might argue that it is a symptom of her derangement. But then, in the early minutes/hours/days of Widowhood—what is not, if examined closely, a symptom of derangement?