Quotes About Self-reliance

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

She saved herself from endless heartache. . . . She probably spent a cold and lonely old age wishing she had a little pleasure to look back upon . . . Prim virtue can be a cold bedfellow.

She did not doubt that he would help her. But she would not be beholden to such a man. She would fight her own battles, as she always had.

You do not know me. I have no desire either to explain or to justify myself to you.

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As I see it, there is room for only one master in my home. It may be unreasonable of me, my dear fellow, but I have always insisted that that master be me.

She must not let him ruin the tranquility of her life again. She would not let him do so!

It is perhaps unwise to allow one person to influence one's decisions . . . People can disappoint us, you know.

Victims wallow. They fret over what they cannot control. And I'm no victim.

It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to do what I have to do to be as strong as I can be and be confident that I can do what I need to do as an older person. [p. 62]

And that I did not give to anyone the responsibility for my life. It is mine. I made it. And can do what I want to with it. Give it back, someday, without bitterness, to the wild and weedy dunes.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. _______ And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

I know I can walk through the world

And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

And that I did not give to anyone the responsibility for my life. It is mine. I made it. And can do what I want to with it. Live it. Give it back, someday, without bitterness, to the wild and weedy dunes.

I did not give to anyone the responsibility for my life.It is mine. I made it. And can do what I want to with it.

I belong to a different generation, I suppose. The old soothing methods do not occur to us. We don't like our bruises patted or kissed. And our usual answer to any emergency is a drink.

Jo no desitjo que les dones tinguin poder sobre els homes, sinó sobre elles mateixes. - Mary Shelley

In order to escape a road of solitude, one has to work hard, and forge a new path with their own power!

I know it's a mess and it's half-taped together and it's old and busted– but it's mine. And you gotta make that work, right? You gotta make your own stuff work out.

If you were stranded on an island, what 3 things would you bring with you?

The characteristic signature of poverty is a return to self-sufficiency.

Imagine if you had to be completely self-sufficient (not just pretending, like Thoreau).

Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month,' Henry David Thoreau asked: 'the boy who had made his own jack-knife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this – or the boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute in the meanwhile, and had received a Rodgers' penknife from his father?