69 Quotes About Self-sufficiency

In winter we often go down to the cellar and contemplate the art gallery. When a blizzard is howling outside is the best time.

Words of the hero: "I am my fate.

You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself.

You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves.

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.

The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

It can’t be done for you; it must be done by you.

Perhaps I can carry my home on my back, if home is nothing but this cocoon, in which I can write and feel fine.

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation can never master us. The first step downward in the average soul is the giving up of the practice of prayer, the breaking of the circuit with divinity, and the proclamation of one’s owns self sufficiency.