Quotes About Self-sufficiency

4. We can learn to depend on ourselves.

6. Strive for undependence. Begin examining the ways we are dependent, emotionally and financially, on the people around us.

And I choose to be alone Rather than wrapped in arms I could never need.

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

Never tie your happiness to the tail of someone else's kite.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

I don't think there's anybody in this world who should be required to make you feel good about yourself. Be happy on your own.

You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required.

I don't have to do films to pay my bills, nor am I insecure to think that out of sight is out of mind.

I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

I did not find living alone difficult. In fact, it was such a liberating feeling because simple things like ironing my clothes, doing laundry, making my bed made me feel independent and gave me the sense of accomplishment that I can do it myself.

After all, what is ''a man'' nowadays? Somebody who stands alone, independent of all ties.

Man has no need of divine inspiration, his reason is sufficient unto itself.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

Nothing wrong with being single when you can do as you please without objection or complaint.

Ee come a time when eby tub haffa res pon e won bottom, said Hepzibah, then translated: At some point in life, you have to stand on your own two feet.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Independence is happiness.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.

the three steps I described as being critical to resilient, self-sufficient performance. First, we learn to flow with distraction, like that blade of grass bending to the wind. Then we learn to use distraction, inspiring ourselves with what initially would have thrown us off our games. Finally we learn to re-create the inspiring settings internally.

In performance training, first we learn to flow with whatever comes. Then we learn to use whatever comes to our advantage. Finally, we learn to be completely self-sufficient and create our own earthquakes, so our mental process feeds itself explosive inspirations without the need for outside stimulus. The

As late as 1820, families made three quarters of all goods—food, clothing, tools—for their own use.

My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.