Quotes About Self-reliance

He didn't take any of my shit. I needed that.

I don't wear the opinions of others anymore, I learnt to dress myself.

Yes, I was a badass all right. And I no longer felt like I needed someone, but instead WANTED someone to share this newfound badassery with. I deserved the best. Anything else wouldn't do.

A Resilient Person do not need of good fortune.

If it bothers you to see me when then stop looking.

Love should be love. Want should be want. You can love someone with all your heart. They can be your heart, but you have to be able to stand on your own and I couldn't.

Frankie scanned her eyes. I don't ask for things. I take them.

I am all things, I am not your words. I am defined by me.

If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you're praying someone else will do for you.

Don't leave anything for anyone who is eventually going to leave you.

The strange part about a person's lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.

I bought a backscrabber. One more reason to have no need for a relationship.

Don't need to stand by me, I'm enough for myself.

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

Never limit oneself based on the limitations of others. If you can not inspire them - leave them to be inspired by your lead

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

None of us have ever asked the men for anything, Agata states. Not a single thing, not even for the salt to be passed, not even for a penny or a moment alone or to take the washing in or to open a curtain or to go easy on the small yearlings or to put your hand on the small of my back as I try, again, for the twelfth or thirteenth time, to push a baby out of my body. Isn't it interesting, she says, that the one and only request the women would make of the men would be to leave?

Estem perdent el temps, clama la Greta, passant la càrrega, el sac de rocs, de l'una a l'altra, traient-nos el dolor de sobre. Això, no ho hem de fer. No ens hem de passar la patata calenta del patiment. Que cadascú s'empassi el seu, diu. L'inspirem, el païm i el convertim en combustible.

Znamo mi vrlo dobro kako izgleda pod tu?im repom, ali bez toga njuškanja ne možemo živjeti.

He was doing what a man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.

thirst for independence overruled her need for guidance

Forget what the culture says.

I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age: an almost childlike twenty-two, rather than that permanent middle-age that attaches itself to the man who lives alone and supports himself by wearing a suit in a city not of his birth.