Quotes About Self-reliance

Passivity is aggressively doing nothing and allowing life—or anything else—to do everything for you.

No one owns me, she said. No one. No matter what binds me. No matter what shackles hold me. No matter what I am compelled to do. I am the only one who holds my heart.

And then he says something like this ... I would die for you. But I won't live for you. Something like that. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.

I don't want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of

I would die for you. But I won't live for you." Something like that. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.

suggested that a life without sex and without the presence of a partner offered numerous benefits. The celibate life allowed productivity, independence and ease free from the pressures of placating and accommodating the will and desires of another: released from the degrading imperatives of erotic congress, a new and better kind of life could be lived. Sex was an overrated bore. 'Besides,' I confessed as I ended the article, 'I'm scared that I may not be very good at it.

Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.

There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.

Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.

Sometimes you have to be a high riding bitch to survive, sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has to hang on to.

It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to first make a light then tend it, you have to be a bitch.

If you disaprove, I can only shrug my shoulders. It's what I have.

In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Make do.

Let it eat her; let it beat her. It could do both. But she would not beat herself.

Pride was the belt you could use to hold up your pants even after your pants were gone

I think we mostly live alone. By choice, like him, or just because that's the way the world was made.

But I was done trying to wake her up, to make her see. To save her. The only person I could save was myself.

If you remain dependent on your parents all your life, do not carry a wrong pretence that you are even born.

If it has to be it's up to me.

You are the magical fairy that makes things happen in your life. Don't wait for someone else to make your dreams come true.