Quotes About Self-reliance

I think it's great that you think about…your mother, quincies, the future, all kinds of things before you act. I respect that about you. But…I'm not like you. For me, 'taking care of myself' means doing what I can, when I can.

It was good to be alone. Really alone, without other people around you to let you imagine that your life had mingled with theirs. But that never was true. Even together, people were as solitary as cows in a field chewing their own cud.

walked everywhere. He hated getting rides.

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is not the job of government to be the national nanny. The average citizen can look after his or her own needs without assistance from somebody who works here in Washington.

drinking water from streams like animals

Paul reached out his hand to help Sophie to her feet; she ignored him (she didn't hold with patronising gender-stereotypical conventions) and wobbled for a moment before her legs remembered how to cope with her weight.

As if adult males were completely self-sufficient beings, as if a penis and a five o'clock shadow were all they would ever need to get by.

She had arrived in dirty rags and had cooked up a striking outfit for herself, out of relief donations

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!

I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

Long as you're not afraid, nobody can run your life for you. Remember that. Hell is being scared of things.

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

It's more important to be free than to be happy.

Was she simply too shallow to suffer indefinitely, or was she too wise to become attached to her suffering, too feisty to permit it to rule her life? She voted for wise and feisty, and walked on, kicking leaves.

For you, freedom means leave me alone. For the masses, it means give me a break.

He licked his lips. 'Well, if you want my opinion-' 'I don't, ' She said. 'I have my own.

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

Look to yourself. You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you. Seek your own land. You young and a woman and there's serious limitation in both, but you are a person too. Don't let Lenore or some trifling boyfriend and certainly no devil doctor decide who you are. That's slavery. Somewhere inside you is that free person I'm talking about. Locate her and let her do some good in the world.