Quotes About Self-reliance

You don't need protecting. You actually don't need anything. That's what makes you so attractive to me. You want someone to stand at your side, not at your back.

And no worries, my elevator still goes to the top floor.

Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.

I didn't have any money or ID. I didn't have a credit card. Hell, I didn't have a business card. What would it say? 'Harry Dresden, Winter Knight, Targets Slain, No Barbecues, Waterslides, or Fireworks Displays.

Molly was a big believer in shaping the future by way of carrying anything you might need in a backpack.

But it also meant that I had me on my side. And I liked the way that felt.

It was why no sane cat allowed kits to come anywhere near human beings. Humans seemed to feel that it was perfectly acceptable to teach kits to accept food from their hands as a matter of course, rather than teaching them the importance of hunting skill and self-reliance.

Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself, as if she let go, great pieces of her life would shatter and fall off in mockery of the apocalypse.

Pain (2) ...You want to give up, throw in the towel but you can't give up because you're all you have.

the older men who had asked neither favors nor assistance from anyone. They had settled their own problems in their own way or died trying, and if they died, no survivor had ever looked to the law for redress. Andy

Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.

The maxim had often helped him, at any rate, and even saved him from making some wrong decisions, because he had rarely made a mistake when he had followed his own judgment alone. He put a piece of paper in front of each of us and dictated: "Etiam si omnes—ego non! It's from the Gospel According to St. Matthew

I dealt with it the same way I deal with everything. I just tended my own garden, didn't pay much attention, behaved—I suppose—deviously. I mean I didn't actually let too many people know what I was doing.

It did not occur to me to call a doctor, because I knew none, and although it did occur to me to call the desk and ask that the air conditioner be turned off, I never called, because I did not know how much to tip whoever might come—was anyone ever so young?

I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it. I could write a syndicated column for teenagers under the name "Debbi Lynn" or I could smuggle gold into India or I could become a $100 call girl, and none of it would matter.

She did not want to court further appraisal by asking anyone for anything.

She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping cart.

In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go tot he literature. Information was control.

I have the irrational habit of not listening to people who tell me what to do

remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help.

The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.

Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask How high? She goes out and buys a pogo stick.