Quotes About Self-reliance

If there was one thing I'd learned, it was that you were responsible for your own ship. You had to look after the engine and make sure the plan was in order and ready to be flown. You were in charge of plotting your course. When you were in the pilot's seat, it was your hand on the throttle, no one else's. If your oil ran out or you lost an engine or the engine caught fire and you had to crash, you were the one saving yourself. No one else could do it for you.

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

Use your inner resources. Stop trying to distract yourself with tiny pictures and other people's lives. You're distracting yourself from things you ought to be owning up to.

Actually," began Nina, feeling timid and trying to force herself to speak a little louder. This was her life now; she was going to have to own it, even though she felt as you often do when you've had to do absolutely everything by yourself: rather like a grumpy child. She took a breath. "Actually, I'm going to run a mobile bookshop. Go around to the towns where they don't have one, like here.

If this is love, no thanks. I don't want any part of it. When I'm older, I'm just going to do my own thing. If I like a boy, fine, I'll date him, but I'm not going to sit at home and cry over him. I cry over important things.

Stormy used to have a saying. Leave with the one you came with, unless he's a drunk--then find your own way home.

If this is love, no thanks, I don't want any part of it. When I'm older, I'm just going to do my own thing.

If I like a boy, fine, I'll date him, but I'm not going to sit at home and cry over him.

I don't want to be owned by anyone. Or belong to anyone.

Sorry for not calling, but not sorry for going.

Sighing heavily, she says, "If this is love, no thanks. I don't want any part of it. When I'm older, I'm just going to do my own thing.

And never trust the boy to bring the condom. A lady always brings her own.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.

The modern term is called "being a bitch" but the Indians call it "being in your power." I liked the sound of their beliefs immediately.

I read an article written by a woman living alone who got them. She talks about how depressing it is to have no one to help her with all the spraying and washing and cooking and bagging. She's spent all her money, hasn't had a date in years. I show it to my husband. "It's true. We're lucky," he says.

A dreary sense of loneliness came over him as he realized how everything he had brought with him from home and from the old days seemed to fall away from him and let him go his own way, forgotten and forsaken. The door to the past was barred, and he stood outside, empty-handed and alone; whatever he needed and desired he must win for himself--new friends and new shelter, new affections and new memories.

I'm not here to be liked. -Batman,Dark victory.

do not let your happiness depend upon the fancies of other men

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

But my social circle had dwindled. Hell, all I had was a social dot—just me on a one man continuum.

Listen to your gut, her father was fond of saying, but make up your own damn mind.

It's not wise to rely on a man's ability to remember anything.

snatched it up and shoved it into her sack without leaving her shelter. Score. What she couldn't eat right away she could slice and dry in the stifling summer heat. The scuffle continued, and Elysia