Quotes About Self-reliance

No offense but I don't relish being someone's science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian)

She thinks of her mother, sitting cross-legged, sewing marigolds into garlands for the gods, telling her: "The biggest mistake we make is thinking we are powerless

We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none.

The answer is they didn't. They aren't here, Razor. They never were it's just us. It's always been just us.

So I'm alone. I have no one. Is that what you're telling me?" - Junco, Range (to be published April 2013)

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth and your attitude.

It is always in the creating your path, not in the fitting in the society.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes…. I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realized the person I was waiting for was myself.

Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy--of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.

The solution of mankind's most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.