Quotes About Self-reliance

I breakfasted at four [a.m.], was in the saddle at five, and between that hour and 6 p.m. I rode fifty miles over a rough country, unknown to everybody, and only myself for a guide

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die.

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I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. —WILLIAM BLAKE, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

I've had enough of organizations for a while, no matter how good the cause. I prefer being a free-agent rabble-rouser. Dan

How do you dream of a future when you're not supposed to have one? How do you keep going when the world has disowned you?- -I keep reminding myself that I'm right, and the world is wrong.- -But how do you know?- -I believe. I don't have your kind of faith, but I got faith in myself...-

And so, I have no one but myself to blame when the scythedom befouls the things I have worked for.

The punishment for making something barely edible was having to eat it yourself.

Life would be so much easier without people telling us what we're supposed to feel—what we're supposed to do. Life would be so much easier if everyone left us alone.

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

nobody can save you but yourself and you're worth saving. it's a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.

People don't do me much good.

show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually dirty kitchen, and 5 times out of 9 I'll show you an exceptional man. show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.

nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself

Nobody can save you but yourself. You will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. They will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise, and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. But don't, don't, don't. It's a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it. Nobody can save you but yourself, and you're worth saving.

for me obedience to another is the decay of self

for me obedience to another is the decay of self. for though every being is similar each being is different and to herd our differences under one law degrades each self.

Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.

and beware those who only take instructions from their God for they have failed completely to live their own lives.