Quotes About Self-reliance

Society can be a bitch." "And is by no means always right. Society can't know you like you know yourself. So don't let society be the judge of your actions. Only you can judge you.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

Ho sempre voluto farcela da solo, con i miei sforzi, senza chiedere nulla a nessuno.

A man has the right to be stupid on his own account, but not on behalf of others.

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself. No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.

But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both.

The kind of people who spend their lives as permanent guests on a futon are not the kind of people you want to know.

Besides, I did not require heroism--I had been the hero of my own life for some time.

Never use someone else's engine, if you can help it," Dov warned. "You cede too much power to them.

To be alive was to accept that you were fundamentally alone.

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself. No

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

In crisis, I circled my wagons, more afraid of being disappointed by someone than going it alone.

But as much as I complained about my solitude, I also required it. I put a high price on my freedom from obligation, of having to report to no one.

Long before I'd read a word of Virginia Woolf, I knew that, for me, a room of one's own was the ultimate prize. That a lock on the door was the power to think for oneself.

There were actually all sorts of New Women, but they shared an independent competence that some found rather terrifying.

The times are permanently bad…. To imagine a way of life that could be patched up is to think of the cosmos as a vast plumbing affair. To expect others to do what we are unable to do ourselves is truly to believe in miracles."74

A real man has no need of governments, of laws, of moral or ethical codes, to say nothing of battleships, police clubs, high-powered bombers and such things."76

Along the way, we discover that we are alone. We no longer have to ask permission because we are the providers of our own safety….There is grieving to be done because an old self is dying. By taking in our suppressed and even our unwanted parts, we prepare at the gut level for the reintegration of an identity that is ours and ours alone – not some artificial form put together to please the culture or our mates.

All my life, I've had well-meaning guys hovering over me, protecting me when I didn't need or want it. Enough with the well-meaning guys. They want to keep an eye on me? I'll send their eyes back blackened.

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

Giving hearts enjoy eternal happiness, self content and independent hearts are generally happy, but, those who always expect from others are mostly unhappy creatures.