Quotes About Reliance

Always, Mrs Ramsay felt, one helped oneself out of solitude reluctantly by laying hold of some little odd or end, some sound, some sight.

f anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness.

but that was too harsh a phrase — could depend so

this admirable fabric of the masculine intelligence, which ran up and down, crossed this way and that, ... upholding the world, so that she could trust herself to it utterly ... Then she woke up. It was still being fabricated.

he lei rispettasse e venerasse come rispettava e venerava lui. Era prontissima a fidarsi di quel che diceva lui, rispose. […] andavano da lei, spontaneamente, perché lei era una donna, tutto il giorno, con questa o quella richiesta; uno voleva una cosa, un altro un'altra; i ragazzi crescevano; a volte le sembrava di non essere altro che una spugna imbevuta di emozioni umane.

Non c'era nessuno che lei rispettasse e venerasse come rispettava e venerava lui. Era prontissima a fidarsi di quel che diceva lui, rispose. […] andavano da lei, spontaneamente, perché lei era una donna, tutto il giorno, con questa o quella richiesta; uno voleva una cosa, un altro un'altra; i ragazzi crescevano; a volte le sembrava di non essere altro che una spugna imbevuta di emozioni umane.

Two things alone remained to him in which he now put any trust: dogs and nature.

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

Next day, after lunch, I went to see our doctor, a friendly fellow whose perfect bedside manner and complete reliance on a few patented drugs adequately masked his ignorance of, and indifference to, medical science.

I entered a plane of being where nothing mattered, save the infusion of joy brewed within my body. What had begun as a delicious distention of my innermost roots became a glowing tingle which now had reached that state of absolute security, confidence and reliance not found elsewhere in conscious life.

there's no unemployment in the workplace of God. And no discrimination of any kind. You say yes to Him, He'll use you. You say no, and He'll find somebody else to do it—after giving you a jillion chances to say yes. He's persistent. And patient.

brand building increasingly relies heavily on word-of-mouth recommendations spreading rapidly through our networked society.

Freedom from stress does not necessarily involve giving up anything, but rather being able to let go of anything, when necessary, and know that one will still be all right. It comes from being more independent—not necessarily more solitary, but more reliant on one's own inner resources for stability.

To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.

Trust is earned.

When you can't be sure of anything else in this crapped-on world, you have to be sure of yourself.

What can I do?" Razr flung his clothes and half a dozen blades onto a chair. "You can make sure this asshole doesn't fuck with me when I pass out." With that, he reached out and grabbed the wall.

Me siento como un náufrago rescatado por un tiburón. Sabes que, mientras sigas prendido a su aleta, no te ahogarás, pero en cualquier momento puede darse la vuelta y darte una dentellada... y temes y odias al tiburón, porque dependes de él, porque no pueden abandonarlo, pero lo siento, amigo, no había amables delfines cerca para salvarte. Esto es todo lo que hay. Muerte y dolor.

Never bet your money on another man's game.

There's danger as well as strength in friendship.

Father, I leave them in your hands, for mine are far too small and weak. You are God, and I thank you.

I am not the author of my prayers; when they come, they come from God.

Some days, I believe the Christian story even more than I believe in Australia. After all, I have never been to Australia, it is just a picture on a map. I don't know if I will ever go there, but I know that eventually I am going to Glory. Living the Christian life, however, is not about that Australia kind of believing. It is about a promise to believe even when you don't.

Sometimes, in the movie theater or the supermarket, I look around at people who I suppose live their lives without a chemical crutch, and they amaze me.