Quotes About Self-sufficiency

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

Maybe everyone is just waiting for some else to save them.

The cottages are full of life. It's incredible to think they are filled with people who know nothing of computerised technology, nor even running water, sewage systems or electricity. And yet here they live. Surviving.

I'd rather drop dead doing for myself than add a day to my life by acting helpless.

We do not want to admit our lack of substance to ourselves and, instead, strive to project an image of completeness, or self-sufficiency. The paradox is that, to the extent that we succumb to this urge, we are estranged from ourselves and are not real. Our narcissism requires that we keep the truth about our selves at bay.

Quando avrò una laurea in matematica, o in fisica, o in matematica e fisica, troverò un lavoro e guadagnerò un sacco di soldi e sarò in grado di pagare qualcuno che si occupi di me e cucini per me e mi lavi i vestiti, oppure troverò una donna che mi sposi e si prenda cura di me, che mi faccia un po' di compagnia per non rimanere da solo.

Then, when I've got a degree in maths, or physics, or maths and physics, I will be able to get a job and earn lots of money and I will be able to pay someone who can look after me and cook my meals and wash my clothes, or I will get a lady to marry me and be my wife and she can look after me so I can have company and not be on my own.

Then, when I've got a degree in maths, or physics, or maths and physics, I will be able to get a job and earn lots of money and I will be able to pay someone who can look after me and cook my meals and wash my clothes, or I will get a lady to marry me and be my wife and she can look after me so I can have company and not be on my own.

disregard other

Lucy, indeed, was not demonstrative: and she was, moreover, one of those few persons — for they are very few — who are contented to go on with their existence without making themselves the centre of any special outward circle. To the ordinary run of minds it is impossible not to do this.

What could she do with a man who had no ideas of his own as to what he ought to do with himself?

Come down and have a glass of brandy-and-water, and leave the people alone for the present. The people can take care of themselves a great deal better than we can take care of them.

Le bonheur est à ceux qui se suffisent à eux-mêmes.

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each instrument could do its own work, at the word of command or by intelligent anticipation, like the statues of Daedalus or the tripods made by Hephaestus, of which Homer relates that Of their own motion they entered the conclave of Gods on Olympus, as if a shuttle should weave of itself, and a plectrum should do its own harp playing.

But he who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Happiness belongs to those who suffice themselves.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Poole and Bowman had often humorously referred to themselves as caretakers or janitors aboard a ship that could really run itself. They would have been astonished, and more than a little indignant, to discover how much truth that jest contained.

Naturally, the system would have to be rigidly closed, recycling all food, air, and other expendables. But, of course, that's just how the Earth operates—on a slightly larger scale.

Why don't you grow up by yourself?

I have neither friends nor relatives, thank goodness. I'm as lonely as a stone.