Quotes About Self-sufficient

Happiness then, is found to be something perfect and self sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

The man who is isolated, who is unable to share in the benefits of political association, or has no need to share because he is already self-sufficient, is no part of the polis, and must therefore be either a beast or a god.

Happiness, therefore, being found to be something final; and self-sufficient, is the end at which all actions aim.

Someone is a king only if he is self-sufficient and superior in all goods; and since such a person needs nothing more, he will consider the subjects' benefit, not his own. . . . Tyranny is contrary to this; for the tyrant pursues his own good.

The simply complete thing, then, is that which is always chosen for itself and never on account of something else.

Carente de contacto con el mundo exterior, era un universo en sí misma.

That's what's so wonderful about you, you're so self-sufficient that I feel that you've created your own self.

The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace.

Grace is free because God would not be the infinite, self-sufficient God He is if he were constrained by anything outside Himself.

The most glorious thing about God is that he is so completely, fully self-sufficient that the glory of the fullness of his being overflows in truth and grace for his creatures. He doesn't need us. And therefore in his fullness he overflows for us. Such is the grace we receive at Christmas.

Christmas means: the infinitely self-sufficient God has come not to be assisted but to be enjoyed.

Nature is not tailored to man. It exists for itself.

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.

remind yourself that you are a very fulfilled person—stable, functional, and happy—with a career, friends, and hobbies, and that you are perfectly capable of living with or without him. You are not an empty vessel waiting for him to fill you up, support you, or give you a life. You are alive and enthusiastic, engaged in work and in living fully on your own.

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something in nature that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. Aristotle Politics, c. 328 BC

By substance, I mean that which is in itself, and is conceived through itself: in

My 20s were gone, my 30s were recovery, my 40s is where I am self-sufficient.

My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.

I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms of addressing the problem of American families, of children in American families as a whole, and giving them an opportunity to get off to a fresh start, to become self-sufficient, to lead safe, constructive lives.

I dunno whether it was to do with my parents - we were working-class - but it was important to me to be self-sufficient.

Q: What do you call an ant that prefers to be alone? A: Independant.

He would hang out no signals, he would take notice of none.

Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.

I'm as apolitical as possible. I don't hang out with too many people. I'm a loner. For the most part, when I show up, I read a book or work on my computer, and stay out of everybody else's way.