Quotes About Self-reliance

Who cares about my cock? It'll fend for itself.

You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.

I like to know that there are big places without windows where no one gives a shit. You need confidence to go into small places with regular customers—small bookshops and small music shops and small restaurants and cafés. I'm happiest in the Virgin Megastore and Borders and Starbucks and PizzaExpress, where no one gives a shit, and no one knows who you are.

He didn't want to put up with things as they were, but the other choice meant that he'd have to be his own mother, and how could you be your own mother when you were only twelve?

I didn't want people feeling sorry for me, you see. I wanted them to help, even if helping meant saying that they wouldn't help

I'm OK. Really. I can find people. I'll be all right.

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.

There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.

left to my own devices, I'm content to wake myself with a fart.

It was OK to need people; she was learning that. You just had to be careful.

No one should ever allow himself to fall down in the belief that someone else will lift him to his feet because it will not happen; or if it does happen it will not prove to his advantage.

if you wish to please me, and to bring success and honour to yourself, do right and study, because others will help you if you help yourself.

I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob me of my soul.

and he said: you pretty full of yourself ain't chu so she replied: show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person

BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE

The main advantage about being over thirty is you no longer have to pretend you have a date on Friday night or even, lo and behold, that you want one. You can now easily say to yourself, I hope no one wants to ask me to do anything because I am so looking forward to a hot tub and a midnight snack.

I wanted to help him but I guess ultimately you can only slay the dragon yourself. All that I could do was help him sharpen his sword if he needed me to.

These young folks say they can't leave home without their American Express, but nowadays I can't leave home without my pistol. I ain't used it in a while but I've been itching to.

One's salvation could only be brought about through his own efforts.

Nu face nimic dac? n-ai cap; p?l?rie s? ai.

I think, very plausibly, that the core principle and requirement of a fulfilled human being is the ability to inquire and create constructively, independently, without external controls.

He was singing a song he had composed entirely without professional assistance.

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

Above all, be the heroine of your own life, not the victim.