Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Love comes from ourselves, not from someone else.

I've finally figured out a way to stand strong on my own.

Remember, if something goes wrong, if you need anything at all, you're absolutely on your own.

didn't have to worry. A person of so fine a form and grace was her daughter, and she was fine over there. She had moxie and she was smart and there was nothing else to want for her. She'd be taking care of the wants for herself. Her mother would hold on to her still, but she could let her go at any time and the girl would be stalwart.

The war had taught us so many things: how to spin wool and weave cloth; how to fashion our own shoes from old saddle leather and sturdy canvas; how to plow fields and mend fences. Now it had taught us to kill, and how to protect ourselves from the consequences of those killings with a grim purposefulness that would have been unimaginable even a year before.

If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn't want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man.

My share. I hate owing anyone anything. Don't you?

Stranahan didn't consider himself an eccentric or a hermit, even though at age fifty-three he lived alone on an island at the edge of the Atlantic with no landline, satellite dish or personal computer.

We're worried - and for good reason - about what it means for the human future if we have only ourselves to rely upon.

I never was hard or sell-sufficient enough. When people are soft--soft people have got to shimmer and glow--they've got to put on soft colors, the colors of butterfly wings, and put a-- paper lantern over the light.... It isn't enough to be soft. You've got to be soft and attractive. And I--I'm fading now! I don't know how much longer I can turn the trick.

if you wanted something done, it was never a good idea to rely on others. Others were never as committed to achieving your goals as you were.

The best defense was your own, and you should never rely on chance or other people.

But the ragpicker had learned long ago that if you wanted something done, it was never a good idea to rely on others. Others were never as committed to achieving your goals as you were.

He saw little enough of people and little enough was more than enough, and he didn't look to give them reasons to seek him out.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

there was possibly something complimentary in the way Granny Weatherwax resolutely refused to consider other people's problems. It implied that, in her considerable opinion, they were quite capable of sorting them out by themselves.

There is an organic difference between a system of self-sufficiency and a self sustaining system. One precludes diversity, the other necessitates it.

Be an island unto yourself. Take refuge in yourself and not in anything else.

Humanity now is on a reckless course. It is destroying its self-sufficiency in the world. It is endangering the natural balances that have given humanity such a beautiful and splendid world in which to evolve and to live. This is hazardous not only for your future in this world, but also hazardous regarding your relationships with other races in the universe.

What a wretched thing it was to be born poor and not to have any one to do anything for you and not to be able to do so very much for yourself!

Un gato es el único animal que puede vivir como un parásito y conservar plenamente su capacidad de cuidar de sí mismo. Oímos hablar de perros perdidos, pero nunca de gatos perdidos. Los gatos no se pierden porque los gatos no son de niguna parte.

I follow my own mind and judgment.

I never get my hair done. I just do it myself.

When things get rough you just kind of do it yourself.