Quotes About Self-reliance

Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up flowers, wind, water, a big rock.

But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand. And for keeping alive in me somehow the desire to know.

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

Whatever was going on between my parents, I suppose that my fantasy of self-sufficiency, my heavy investment in my own mind, is also a kind of narcissistic cathexis.

I believe what I choose. I am not as simple as I seem. Now go!

Overcoming problems on your own normalizes the situation, teaches new skills, and brings you closer to the people who were helpful. Taking a pill labels you as different and sick, even if you really aren't. Medication is essential when needed to reestablish homeostasis for those who are suffering from real psychiatric disorder. Medication interferes with homeostasis for those who are suffering from the problems of everyday life.

you're the gallagher girl. figure it out.- zach

The most underused tool in the kitchen is the brain. I blame the food media (yes, that of which I am a part) who have lulled us into a state of recipe slavery. We don't think about recipes as much as we perform them.

When you are small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead. — Amanda Eyre Ward, How to Be Lost . (Ballantine Books; Reprint edition August 30, 2005)

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

Part of thinking for oneself is learning to recognize obstacles when they present themselves, and understanding that one must confront those obstacles, not merely ignore them in the mistaken hope that they will disappear.

There's no match for the sweetness independence brings.

You can't become attached to things, not out here in the wild.

Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can, that's my advice.

Seemed that Logen's father had been right. You can never have too many knives.

Nothing was easy with people, but she could always count on herself to make things more difficult than they had to be.

You'll never hold up someone who can't swim for themselves. In the end, they'll drag you down with them.

La belleza de hacerte promesas a ti misma es que nadie más se queja si no las cumples.

Why don't you got a man, Shy?' 'Don't like men much, I guess.' 'You don't like anyone much.' 'They started it.' 'All of 'em?' 'Enough of 'em.

My father doesn't own me. Not even a percentage. If we marry, my loyalty will be to you. But you should know I am my own woman and do things my own way. I do not plan for that to change.

Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can,

My father always used to say, you want things right, you have to put 'em right yourself.

Self-pity was for children and half-wits.

But there comes a time you have to say no to what you're given and reach for what you want.