15 Quotes Tagged: self-sufficiency

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

I didn't expect that anyone would be interested in my kind of writing. I was interested, and this was for me enough.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

I couldn't count on the world being silent, so my only option was to become at peace with the noise.

If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to accept the name men give it, you'll only lay yourself open to double harassment.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free. And you can't hold this up as your own tragedy, for your birth is a tragedy of Fate alone. Hapless you are, however, if life itself so oppresses you that you're forced to become a slave. Hapless you are if, having been born free, with the capacity to be isolated and self-sufficient, poverty should force you to live with others.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.