Quotes About Self-reliance

I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.

I don't want to be on any major labels.

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.

The taste of the times is, unhappily, to give to children something of book-learning, with a view of placing them to live, in some way or other, upon the labour of other people.

With no finish line, no referees, no one right way to do it, hiking is perhaps the quintessential sport for anarchists.

To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension; and I miss all those moments that pass. They never come back to be experienced again. —Kathleen Tierney Crilly

When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

When you become a streetwalker, you don't write home very much.

I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind.

there may come a time when you must go on, be strong without a friend until you can make new ones, stand on your own.

When I turned fifty, a friend told me that one of the great joys of aging is no longer needing outside validation.

The patient must acquire the capacity to assume responsibility for himself, in the sense of feeling himself the active, responsible force in his life, capable of making decisions and of taking the consequences. With this goes an acceptance of responsibility toward others, a readiness to recognize obligations in whose value he believes, whether they relate to his children, parents, friends, employees, colleagues, community, or country.

I'm not good, Mac. Never have been.' What-true confession time? my eyes tease. Don't need it. 'I want what I want and I take it.' Is he warning me? What could he possibly threaten me with now? 'There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.

It's a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It's every princess for herself.

You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man." "Screw you, Barrons." "I'm not that man, either.

There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.

You can't save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up.

He doesn't get that I'm not interested in a superhero boyfriend. I'm going to be the superhero that can kick his ass from one end of Dublin to the other.

Since I've been on my own, I've been eating a lot of popcorn, cereal, instant noodles, and snack bars. I have a hot plate in my bedroom, a microwave, and a small fridge. That's the kind of kitchen I know how to get around in.

I look up but don't spot him. "I take care of myself. I ain't living with nobody. Got my own digs. What are you doing up there?" "Tracking the Hag. Trying to devise a way to trap her. She's fast but she's not a sifter." I jerk, and look around warily. That's all we need right now. "Is she here?" "If you brought that crazy bitch near me again." Ryodan doesn't finish his sentence. He doesn't need to.

I can either be a victim—or a winner. Fuck victimhood. I don't wear it well; it clashes with my wardrobe. I'm ready. Only one of us is getting out alive. It's going to be me.

A wise woman indiscriminately picked up all the tools others left lying around.

I don't convince nobody of nothing. You take me or leave me just the way I am! But I ain't changing for you or nobody else and I ain't faking either, and if you think breaking my bones one by one is going to accomplish a thing besides, like, breaking my bones, good luck with that!

I will never again permit myself to forget that isolation is the first step to defeat.