Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Siempre sentí que me sobraba una mano; por algo el Mono nos hizo dobles, nos proveyó de «repuestos», por decirlo de alguna manera. No sería muy atractivo, pero podríamos vivir perfectamente con un solo brazo, una sola pierna, un solo ojo, un solo riñón, un solo pulmón, un solo huevo (incluso sin ninguno), un solo oído y un solo corazón.

You've always been independent. And stubborn about it. You were only four years old when you told me you didn't need me to tuck you in anymore and you could do it yourself. I could never make you understand it wasn't whether or not you could do it. It was about sharing those last few minutes of your day with you. You have a way of not letting people in." (Kindle Locations 2492-2495)

Suave qui peut —let those who can save themselves save themselves.

Sometimes I think that in not wanting children, I'm preparing for my old age. I know what I want my old age to look like, more than I know almost anything else: a simple home, a simple life, no one needing me for anything, and not needing anyone the way I do now.

I have never wanted to feel like I'm dependent on a man. I've done everything I could do to avoid it. Yet men are dependent on women, too, and all humans are dependent on things beyond the human. A

I have never wanted to feel like I'm dependent on a man. I've done everything I could do to avoid it. Yet men are dependent on women, too, and all humans are dependent on things beyond the human.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

You shouldn't rely on others to help you determine what's good and what's bad. In no time at all, you'll simply be under someone else's control.

I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.

A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.

There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.

Oh my God - this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.

I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don't know. I'm a country kid, so I don't like modern technology.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

She did not doubt that he would help her. But she would not be beholden to such a man. She would fight her own battles, as she always had.

Marc was in charge of the Wolverton tube plant colony and the tilapia tank, which would produce fresh food to supplement the packaged stuff they were bringing.

The characteristic signature of poverty is a return to self-sufficiency.

I find the world is full of people who think that their dependence on others is decreasing, or that they would be better off if they were more self-sufficient, or that technological progress has brought no improvement in the standard of living, or that the world is steadily deteriorating, or that the exchange of things and ideas is a superfluous irrelevance.

In 2009, an artist named Thomas Thwaites set out to make his own toaster, of the sort that he could buy from a shop for about £4.

Imagine if you had to be completely self-sufficient (not just pretending, like Thoreau).

he does not achieve through other men nor for other men, he achieves through and for himself alone, then offers it to others.

My real soul...? It's real only when it's independent...

I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I've always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I've always recognized it at once—and it's the only quality I respect in men. I chose my friends by that. Now I know what it is. A self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters.