Quotes About Self-sufficiency

CARRY Or Be CARRIED.

What right have you to pray for me? I need no intercessor, I shall manage alone.

at this hour of the morning, I needed no one.

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.

I would rather be single. I cannot possibly say that.

Really, his self-sufficiency is too much. I can't stand that Jupiter Olympian air of his--the only mythological character exempt, they say, from ill-luck.

Vulnerable. It wasn't a word she liked the sound of. It was a weak word. A needy word. And she didn't want to need anyone.

He shook his head. "For me." Leaving the bed, he went to the door, picked up the large picnic basket that the girls were holding, then closed the door, leaving them outside. Much as he had needed their help earlier, he didn't want an audience now.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

and you and I are on our own. No magic wand is gonna fix things." I didn't want to believe that, so I pushed those words away so I wouldn't have to think about them. Then I said, "Did

I need no Chief," said the Kaiser; "I can do this for myself.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

You already own what you think you need.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

I am single, successful, and reasonably attractive. Whether I decide to have relationships that end in taking the plunge or not, they are my decisions.

In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities.

Empowering girls is extremely important to me because, growing up, I needed those empowering women to show me the way. When my parents divorced when I was 11, my mom was a force to be reckoned with. She showed me how to be self-sufficient and independent.

I don't have to worry about what the average record company person thinks because I am the record company person.

I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.

I don't have a record deal, I'm not looking for one, I don't have a manager, I'm not promoting anything.

I made this record without a record label.

I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.