Quotes About Self-sufficiency

POWER THOUGHT 1 I can do whatever I need to do in life through Christ. "I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ's sufficiency]." Philippians 4:13

We must take responsibility for ourselves, and stop expecting others to do for us what we should be doing for ourselves... or trusting God to do for us.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

In his great act of humility and washing, he broke with all the models of humanity that are visible in our own time and place: the rat race of productivity, the fear for survival, the frenzy of accumulation, and the deathly sense of self-sufficiency.

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.

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Our culture confuses the pain of isolation with some impossible ideal of "self-sufficiency," and then celebrates it.

Free yourself to be free."

The best way to live your life is not to depend on mine.

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it.

It's neither safe nor practical to assume that man in your life can be counted on to take care of your finances.

structure your affairs in a way that enables you to realize full individual autonomy and independence.

The man with much finds it easier to forget his dependence than he who must ask with each succeeding day of need.

The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

One needn't worry about turning heads if keeping one's own was a matter left unresolved.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark of public safety. It follows, that the greater the proportion of this class to the whole society, the more free, the more independent, and the more happy must be the society itself.

nature allows no master over itself.

It's all right," she said, a sad smile forming on her lips. "I have everything I need.

It is my experience, stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want, to live and be happy in the world, is a women who has her own life and let's you have yours.

People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

Never give anyone the satisfaction of denying you something you need, and for that, what you have to do is to learn to need nothing. Starve the wanting part of you. Dorothy Allison, "Mama" Trash

You've got one hero too many already. Stand on your own feet, Brother. It's good for the soul.