Quotes About Self-reliance

I guess I feel like I've been putting up this big front to the world like I don't need anybody or anything. Like I'm happier by myself. I don't like being alone any better than anybody else does. I just got confused because it was better than being with most of the people I've known.

Sometimes when a kid's got nobody really running things in his life, he'll decide to take over and take charge of everything. Otherwise the world just seems to be spinning out of control. That seem to hit a note in you?

Anything that lifts responsibility for our actions is addictive, I've found. So really, looking back, I'd have to say that was not the hard moment. The tough bit is always later, when you're held responsible for yourself again, and your life is expected to go on.

I felt quite uncentered enough on my own, with no outside assistance.

Because you can't control other people. You can't be responsible for somebody else.

Sometimes when a kid's got nobody really running things in his life, he'll decide to take over and take charge of everything. Otherwise the world just seems to be spinning out of control.

I decided I would be strong, not because I had to be, not because they had used up all the weakness, but because strong was what I wanted for myself.

decided I would be strong, not because I had to be, not because they had used up all the weakness, but because strong was what I wanted for myself.

Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.

She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears inside her, slowly, but getting stronger.

It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.

I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.

A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks, which you'll learn all about when you're older and don't care anymore.

That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.

You're grown--crooked and backbent, but grown--and it's time to stop hanging your heart on your mother.

A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks, which

It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.

No one is a cup for another to drink from.

I'm gonna be good at something other than marrying, darlings. Besides, I don't want them. I don't even wanna screw them, how am I gonna marry them?

Subtly, she was telling him that she had her own life, her own business. An independent woman could always leave.

It was like Tobin had told her: they didn't matter. She never should have given them that much power.

I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence." ? Geraldine Brooks, March