Quotes About Self-sufficiency

You can define a free person precisely as someone whose fate is not centrally or directly dependent on peer assessment.

Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least.

You have far more control over your life if you decide on your criterion by yourself.

he had already been financially independent

We are most motivated to help those who need us the least.

He knew that he would either be fired or left alone. He was left alone.

It is a country where they know how to build houses. A man's wish to be snug in his own little house, which is just for him and his family, and to have a garden which he cultivates himself, is considered quite reasonable, and so the cities are made up of just such little houses.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

He would be provided for even if he made no discernible contribution to the world - and right now he had no desiire to contribute anything to the world but his bodily waste.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

People don't do me much good.

Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough…

Women wanted men who made money, women wanted men of mark. How many classy women were living with skid row bums? Well, I didn't want a woman anyhow. Not to live with. How could men live with women? What did it mean? What I wanted was a cave in Colorado with three years' worth of foodstuffs and drink. I'd wipe my ass with sand. Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.

I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone,I felt best being alone, cleaner,,

Only the strong can live alone, the strong and the selfish.

We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough

Tus padres no te dan mucho cariño, ¿verdad? -No me hace falta - dije. -Henry, todo el mundo necesita cariño. -Yo no necesito nada.

Why can't "They say" let every body settle their own affairs?

But Luce takes the attitude, when you start fretting the day-by- day you lose track of the long view. And the long view is, they need to learn to speak for themselves and do the best they can. For now, if they bag their own lunch and it's pickles and prunes and they say the words, all you do is put both thumbs up and say, Good job.

As long as you expect someone or something else to take responsibility for you, you're a child.

But the de-emphasized had the temerity to try to look after themselves in ways that resisted monetization. Their

Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: 'Men have learnt to shoot without missing their mark and I have learnt to fly without perching on a twig.'

H]e developed a private philosophy of total self-reliance, an unyielding internal sufficiency that requires no external support from others.