Quotes About Self-reliance

The minute she sensed he had left the house, however, she transformed, concentrated on herself and, as if she had merely been interrupted by him, continued slowly living.

But as long as I have myself I won't be alone

Soledad es tener sólo destino humano. Y soledad es no necesitar. No necesitar deja a un hombre muy solo, totalmente solo.

Don't yield to confidences. My misfortunes are none of her business.

Ser un solitario es algo constitutivo, una forma de ser, algo que no suele cambiar con el paso del tiempo ni con que se llene la casa de gente.

Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

You 're too sufficient by yourself...too inside yourself

Being homeless is not the absence of the soul. I was homeless and needed help. Help yourself too, even if others will not offer anything for you.

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

Make it on your own if you think you can. If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

When are a 'lady on your own,' in other words the landlords' abomination, outcast and terror all rolled into one, you take what you find, lodge where you may, and put up with newly plastered walls.

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; it is the deserting male who often ends in disaster. (William McFee)

The American system of rugged individualism.

Democracy is like a hobby horse: It will carry you nowhere unless you use your own legs.

I left that Democrat plantation a long time ago and I ain't going back.

The wonderful thing about being isolated is that, whatever you do, you're right. And if you're not, then neither are you wrong, because there's no bigmouth around to throw it up to you.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

pronto se hizo obvio un desequilibrio: lo que él me podía enseñar (naturaleza de los instrumentos, procedimientos, análisis de balances, etc.) era finito, mientras que mi dominio era inagotable. Las reglas y las def. son fijas; las condiciones y nuestras reacciones a ellas cambian a cada hora. Cierto, A me había proporcionado capital. Pero al cabo de un año más o menos, yo ya se lo había devuelto con creces y podría, en teoría, haberme establecido por mi cuenta.