Quotes About Self-sufficiency

I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

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...A self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters.

Our first rule here...is that one must always see for oneself.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth—the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. But you look on and you cry that money corrupted him. Did it? Or did he corrupt his money?

To place nothing—nothing—above the verdict of my own mind.

for people who enjoyed their own presence well enough and sought only a place where they would be left free to enjoy it.

I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom." "You call that freedom?" "To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing." "What if you found something you wanted?" "I won't find it. I won't choose to see it. It would be part of that lovely world of yours. I'd have to share it with all the rest of you—and I wouldn

Todo aquel que se respeta no gusta de verse convertido en vaca lechera de la comunidad.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

Przysi?gam — na swoje ?ycie i swoj? mi?o?? do niego — ?e nigdy nie b?d? ?y? dla innego cz?owieka ani prosi? go, by ?y? dla mnie.

Así como no mantengo mi vida mediante el robo o la limosna, sino mediante mi propio esfuerzo, tampoco busco obtener mi felicidad por el daño o el favor de otros, sino por mis propios logros.

A world with its motor cut off and a single heart, pumped by hand.

A qué le llamas libertad? –A no pedir nada. A no esperar nada. A no depender de nada. –¿Y si encontraras algo que quisieras? –No lo encontraré. Elegiré no verlo.

The creators were not selfless. It is the whole secret of their power—that it was self-sufficient, self-motivated, self-generated. A first cause, a fount of energy, a life force, a Prime Mover. The creator served nothing and no one. He lived for himself.

To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.--Dominique Francon

They're not trying to get filthy rich. They don't expect someone else to do what they can do for themselves.

She had said once that to be with him was all she had ever wanted. But he knew that if he died tomorrow, Starhawk would find something else to do—

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

That is surely childhood's end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to say: Nobody else is going to do this.

What kind of weirdo makes cheese? It's too hard to imagine, too homespun, too something. We're so alienated from the creation of even ordinary things we eat or use, each one seems to need its own public relations team to calm the American subservience to hurry and bring us back around to doing a thing ourselves, at home.

You make cheese yourself, she repeated reverently. You are a real housewife. It has taken me decades to get here, but I took that as a compliment.

I hadn't thought before about how self-sufficiency could turn on you in old age or sickness.

make money. To keep myself

Seriously protecting yourself calls for the annihilation of ties with society, ties that most people need the way they need oxygen. You give up friends, family, romance. You walk through the world like a ghost, detached from the living around you. If you were to die in, say, a bus accident, you'd wind up buried in an obscure municipal graveyard, just another John Doe, no flowers, no mourners, hell, no mourning. It's natural, probably even desirable, to be afraid of all this.