Quotes About Self-reliance

What good is it to seek our happiness in the opinion of others if we cannot find it in ourselves?

But why should they blame her? They should blame the men who won't let her alone

I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, no matter what I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

She'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other.

have spunks and do battle for yourself

Get up, girl, and dress yourself. Woman must have spunks to live in this wicked world. Christophine to Antoinette

Mais dès que je ne veux pas mentir à moi-même, je ne trouve en moi qu'un désir - et il est irréalisable: être loin, être seul, être tout à fait seul pendant des mois, réfléchir, me reprendre, sans mon argent, sans le soutien d'aucun être qui m'aime, pour voir si je vaux quelque chose, pour essayer mes forces, pour être sûr que lorsque j'aime, c'est bien réellement un libre choix!

I hadn't been paying attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

The free man never thinks of escape.

I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

I was in those days all about the 'fuck you'. Fuck you for not recognising how great I am. I'll do it myself.

There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

If you can't survive in this world, you had better make a world of your own.

I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never be destroyed.

In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way.

For myself, with no one to love, a hedgehog spirit seemed best and I hid my heart in the leaves.

Whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

If you want to keep your own teeth, make your own sandwiches

Take no notice of anyone you don't respect.

Si hay que permitir a ciertos hombres el librarse al estudio de las ciencias y de las artes, es a aquellos que tengan fuerzas para andar solos en su busca y para adelantarlas. A

Si hubiese sabido desprenderme del yugo de la amistad, como del de la opinión, hubiera logrado completamente mi objeto, quizá el más grande, o a lo menos el más útil para la virtud, que jamás mortal alguno haya concebido;

resolví no ligarme a nadie sino conservar mi independencia sacando partido de mis conocimientos, cuyo valor comenzaba a conocer al fin y que hasta entonces había juzgado con harta modestia.