Quotes About Self-reliance

For years I tried to help people with simple things, such as tension relief through breathing and relaxation, but all they wanted were the drugs. They wanted to numb themselves. They did not want to face their fears or feel better through their own efforts—and they certainly did not want to be illuminated.

Mixed into your memories You are fortified for life And you don't need anyone anymore.

You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.

Niemand gibt dir etwas. Du musst es dir nehmen. (Aus dem Film Departed)

Calitatea ta uman? nu trebuie s? depind? de a celorlal?i

Commerce they say, encourages the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work,self -reliance,and self discipline.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Living under the defeatist directions of the false self, we wrongly assume that the only way to reach real independence, real safety, is to look to someone else to take us there. It isn't in another's power to do for you what you must do for yourself. It never has been.

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

We have a need to persuade ourselves we are not at the mercy of the world.

that no kindly providence was going to save you from the results of what you did, and that you had better be sure of your own strength because you could never be sure of anybody else's.

Take control of your life..don't let the people in your life...take control of you!

Vakhív? támaszt nem a helyeslésben, hanem az elutasításban keres.

After 3, a body has a mind of its own.

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

Go away...I'm alright.

Believe in miracles but don't depend on them.

as long as a man can pay 'is way, he's got enough.

There wasn't much of her, in fact she must have been one of the smallest women I have ever seen—around five feet high—but there was a core of steel in her. She had her own mind and her own way of doing things.

I used up most of my passions and energies during the years I've mentioned, and though I don't talk much about it, the chief thing I've asked from the world since then is to leave me alone.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, so let me live my life the way I want to.

If you look deep enough into yourself." And dare to dig deep enough, you will find that you are a complete whether there is someone in your life or not.