Quotes About Self-reliance

Dzisiaj przysz?a mi do g?owy pewna my?l - tak jasna i oczywista! W pierwszej chwili wyda?a mi si? wr?cz niedorzeczna, wprawi?a mnie w oszo?omienie i wr?cz lekk? histeri? - Mog? zrobi? absolutnie wszystko i poza mn? sam? nie istnieje nic, co by mnie powstrzyma?o.

Never did she succumb to the cowardice of self-pity. I had fancied love a causal adjunct and not the central turning shaft making all the parts move. I had not stood astonished before the power of its turning.

If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely.

Grace was trying to make peace with the fact that it was not her job to absorb every single bump and bruise for her loved ones. Surviving something terrible was a personal journey, and doing the work on one's own was the surest path to healing.

he'd formed the idea that she was a solitary sort, not one to seek company when a good book lay at hand.

Yes, she was a mess, but she wasn't fragile. She would not be broken.

Go and take what you want from life, Arnufo liked to counsel him. Don't wait for it to hand you something. Things given away freely are given away for a reason—because no one else wants them.

how much I have to give, and it's got to be enough, damn it.

No, indeed! she cried, all indignation. I have no notion of asking people to perform services for me which I can do perfectly well for myself. I do not intend to go, in the space of one hour, from the helplessness of enchantment to another sort of helplessness!

People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.

Nineteen and living a life not his own, he was sure enough of his worth to put his name to his work and let it stand for him. Did not even have a wife yet, according to Queen, so it was not love that set him to cutting the pine, but a trust and a longing.

Only thing I remember from school is to keep my eyes on my own paper.

How sad that I couldn't get myself sober to share a life with him, but I could do it to show him I didn't need him.

We must take responsibility for ourselves, and not expect the rest of the world to understand what it takes to become the best that we can become. Great ones are willing to get burned time and again as they sharpen their swords in the fire.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

You needed to know only one person in your life, and that was yourself. You had to find that person and make friends with it if you could and hope it wouldn't turn on you before you had a chance to familiarize yourself with its habits and tear you limb from limb.

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

eso fue lo que me pasó: que estaba sola, me había quedado sola, ya no había nadie entre mi muerte y yo. Ser huérfano es eso: no hay nadie por delante, uno es el siguiente en la línea.

Hey, it's going to be hard to learn a great many things about me, but one I'll you for free... I am no one's son.

It is not always easy, for a woman alone.

It is so important to think for yourself.

No one can live life for you