Quotes About Self-reliance

Once, he told them the truth. Chiseled a single commandment upon a slab of stone: That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself. The man to whom he'd entrusted the tablet promptly shattered it, chiseled ten precise commands upon two stone slabs and carried them down a mountain with the pomp and circumstance of a prophet. Religious wars ravaged that world ever since.

Who wants to be around someone that can change them? Too much power to let another person have!

That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.

And she doesn't want company. I can't fault her for that. We all must make our way alone before we're much good at making our way together.

You don't trust anyone. Except yourself, and that's not trust, that's ego." "Not ego. Awareness of my abilities. And the limitless nature of them.

Chiseled a single commandment upon a slab of stone: That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.

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

I can either be a victim—or a winner. Fuck victimhood. I don't wear it well; it clashes with my wardrobe.

Don't need your approval," I say irritably. "Don't need anybody's." "Stay that way.

It's nobody's responsibility to save me but mine.

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

Decide, Ms. Lane," Barrons said, behind me. "Choose," V'lane agreed. "Go to hell, both of you! New world. New rules. New me. Don't call me. I'll call you.

He might be my wave, but he wasn't my surfboard. Knowledge and usefulness were all that stood between me and the riptide.

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

I realize nobody's coming to save me. I must save myself. I must be my own super hero. Although I am open to a sidekick.

Do not worry, my sweet one. You have it within you to get yourself where you need to be.

If someone doesn't like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone.

And I began to realize that ultimately I was responsible for my own happiness, that blaming other people was counterproductive.

Throughout our lives we are all falling. Falling down, falling out, falling away. Falling in love. The trick is finding someone to catch us. And sometimes we surprise ourselves by finding out that person is us.

The paradox of being a "strong" woman is that you are both perfectly capable of taking care of yourself and desperately hopeful that you don't always have to.

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.

There is no law of progress, and everything will depend on ourselves. But the actual situation is briefly and fairly summed up by Parkes36 in one sentence: 'Low wages, long hours, and child labour have been characteristic of capitalism not, as Marx predicted, in its old age, but in its infancy.

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.