Quotes About Self-reliance

I always talk about love but I've seen a life where I can live without it, where I can eat with my hands, make the whole bed, leave the light on for myself.

The only personYou shouldn't be ableTo live withoutIs you.

One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.

All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else--first my father, then Hugh, even Whit, and I didn't want that anymore. I wanted to belong to myself.

I'm OK with being single, but I'm not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls...

Anyway, You need to focus only on you.

I have never counted on someone to take care of my emotions for me.

To stop being a victim, you have to stop thinking like a victim.

Don't bring me the stars from the sky, I'm planting sunshine in my backyard.

I never needed the Society, " she says, "to Match me." (-Lei)

I changed for the better when I quit expecting others to.

I'm aware of my actions and responsible for them, so I don't owe any explanation to anyone.

My strength is my pride. My pride is my heart. And my heart will always be mine and mine alone.

I don't believe in your version of love, I have my own

If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do

Just Do What you feel, and Don't you fool yourself

When your family dismisses you, like Lotto's did, you create your own family

I, too, was fiercely independent and thought I could make two equal four.

disregard the opinions of those you don't aspire to be, that's the first step to finding your own two feet.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one — THEMSELVES.