Quotes About Self-reliance

Gissing lived alone

There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.

It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. - Brom

Never allow others to create your world because if you do, they will always make it too small.

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

If you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall.

Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.

You know why my wheelchair doesn't have handles, Grayson? I don't like to be pushed.

I have to find another path. Divine my own future. One uniquely mine. Not a page from someone else's book. Not a fate that begins and ends on page one.

Con el tiempo y con los retos de mi vida me di cuenta de que lo que piensa la gente no me interesa, o que al menos puedo fingir que no me interesa y puedo hacer que la gente crea que soy autosuficiente. Lo cierto es que me interesa por demás de la línea de lo normal o esperado.

At least I fight my own battles, Alister,' Micah said. 'Really? And exactly why did you go cackling to the dean?

Aku tidak mau jika kemerdekaan yang kuoerjuangkan sepanjang hidupku, diberikan sebagai hadiah kepadaku seperti sedekah kepada pengemis. Kemerdekaan haruslah merupakan buah dari usaha kita sendiri.

I'm not Lois Lane and you are neither Superman nor Clark Kent," she fired back. "It's crazy for you to go anywhere in this condition, and if you had the sense God gave a rock, you'd stay put." Gabe stopped in his tracks. "Did you just compare me to a rock?" She snorted. "I have the utmost respect for rocks. They're hard, they're heavy. They make good paperweights.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

You have to stop looking for someone else to save you. Only you can do that for yourself.

Who is he who walks always beside you? No-fucking-body, thank you very much. I walk alone.

You are the boss of your knitting and can do what you like; there is no "wrong" in knitting as long as you are pleased with the results.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

The terrible duty is that of going all the way to the end. And without relying on anyone. To live oneself.

Sim, minha força está na solidão. Não tenho medo nem de chuvas tempestivas nem das grandes ventanias soltas, pois eu também sou o escuro da noite. Embora não aguente bem ouvir um assovio no escuro, e passos.

Me acostumbro pero no me amanso.

O horrível dever é o de ir até o fim. E sem contar com ninguém. Viver-se a si mesma. E para sofrer menos embotar-me um pouco. Porque não posso mais carregar as dores do mundo. Que fazer quando sinto totalmente o que outras pessoas são e sentem? Vivo-as mas não tenho mais força.

I don't have anything to nourish me: I eat myself

For other people she didn't exist. Her only advantage over others was knowing how to swallow pills without any water, dry.