69 Quotes About Self-sufficiency

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

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.

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

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.

If love and friendship makes you unhappy, try solitude.

At root, I am happy with myself. I do not mind being alone.

for meobedience to another is the decayof self