Quotes About Self-reliance

...self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

You make your own party.

Me di cuenta de que podía soportarlo todo: el frío que calaba mis ropas gastadas, la tristeza de mi absoluta miseria, el sordo horror de aquella casa sucia. Todo menos su autoridad sobre mí. Era aquello lo que me había ahogado al llegar a Barcelona, lo que me había hecho caer en la abulia, lo que mataba mis iniciativas;

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

There's only one thing worth loving, my girl. Freedom. Always I have loved my freedom

She was a grown-up, divorced woman now, on her own. She'd gotten herself this far, she could get herself around Italy too.

I go in alone, for there is no one for me, but I don't care, I tell myself; I'd expected no one. —Ruth

It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.

although they might never be rich or famous in America, they would have the satisfaction of knowing that what they had they had made for themselves.

It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.

Stronger men than he had collapsed beneath life's unpredictable sorrows. He could not look to others for his salvation; other people were unreliable, changeable. He could only count upon his own resources, his own courage, his own need for truth.

We were just two wild Indians... on our own and no though of its being wrong. You must not have us treated like children of today. It would spoil the i picture and the interest..' Children back then, she wrote, 'weren't raised to be helpless cowards.' -Laura Ingalls Wilder

As Little Crow had said, 'When men are hungry, they help themselves.

You are not easily rescued

She is not burdened with a sensitive heart. Hers just beats.

Just eat it and shit it and be done with it and don't feel special cuz you eat that shit with someone because in the end we all shit alone!

You didn't tie your shoelaces and you blamed the world when you tripped.

in both bookstores and coffee shops, it's actually polite to leave browsers and readers alone. When you harass people and offer to help them too much, they feel like you're nudging them out the door.

I don't need help when it comes to self-soothing. I know how to survive and I will survive

The sweetest thing in life is to be alone, as you were born, as you will die, soaking in the sun, knowing that you put the cactus in the right place, that you don't need someone to come along and compliment your work, that someone who did that would, in fact, just be getting in the way.

attaching all your hopes and fantasies to something—or someone—outside yourself almost always has disastrous results.

I am not lonely, living this way, because I have given up expecting that loneliness can be blotted out by anyone else; my loneliness is my own cherished possession and probably my only one.