Quotes About Self-reliance

The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone ~~Jonathan Franzen

The first thing reading teaches us is how to be alone

Sleepwalkers, leave other sleepwalkers alone!

Alone, one can live perfectly. But not a life.

Aloneness isn't loneliness.

I had to do it for myself.

Cuanto más te muestre de mí y más te escuche, más voy a saber de mí. Y cuanto más sepa de mí, de mejores maneras voy a estar a cargo de mi persona. Y cuanto mejor esté a cargo de mi persona, menos dependiente seré del afuera.

Y si la libertad no existiera, no existiría la autonomía. Y si la autonomía no existiera, no existiría la autodependencia. Y si la autodependencia existiera, y sabiendo que no la independencia tampoco existe, no nos quedaría otra posibilidad que la dependencia...

Y si la libertad no existiera, no existiría la autonomía. Y si la autonomía no existiera, no existiría la autodependencia. Y si la autodependencia no existiera, y sabiendo que no la independencia tampoco existe, no nos quedaría otra posibilidad que la dependencia...

Nunca dependiendo de la palabra de los otros, pero siempre escuchándola. Nunca obedeciendo el consejo de los demás, pero siempre teniéndolo en cuenta. Nunca pendiente de la opinión del afuera, pero siempre registrándola con claridad.

I leave nothing for nobody.

A semmit hagyom senkire.

So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul, Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Lots of times growing up, I'd just try to do something myself because I believed that being a boy, and being Indian, I should just know how to do things. -Will Bird, Through Black Spruce

VIII O when so much has been and gone behind you—grief, to say the least— expect no help from anyone. Board a train, get to the coast. It's wider and it's deeper. This superiority's not a thing of joy especially. Mind you, if one has to feel as orphans do, better in places where the view stirs somehow and cannot sting.

A free man, when he fails, blames nobody.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure.

Where there is a way or a path, it's someone else's way.

Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, and Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself. That's the helpful thing about the Indian idea of karma. Your fate is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

A boxer, like a writer, must stand alone.

A bot had to find his own way, and I'd figured out that functioning for function's sake was pointless." - Mack Megaton

We all save ourselves child, even if we are fortunate enough to have help along the way.

He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves.