self-reliance

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
fec94b8	care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.	solitude individuality self-determination independence self-awareness empowerment self-assurance self-sufficiency self-trust self-containment defiance self-reliance self-respect self-esteem	Charlotte Brontë
26246c4	It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.	philosophy inspirational lecture transcendentalism essay self-reliance social-commentary nonfiction	Ralph Waldo Emerson
c6415dc	It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.	trust loves-ones self-reliance mistakes	Jodi Picoult
71d67f1	Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.	self-reliance journey	Walt Whitman
ae26b5f	The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.	solitude individuality self-determination independence self-awareness inspirational self-assurance self-sufficiency self-trust ataraxy self-containment self-reliance self-respect self-esteem	Michel de Montaigne
cf0b8e5	Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.	self-determination life inspirational self-reliance anticipation	Dr. Seuss
b320797	Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.	trust self-reliance instinct	David Gemmell
acee414	Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.	anchoring individuality self-determination independence self-awareness empowerment inspirational country self-assurance self-sufficiency self-trust self-containment homelessness belonging self-reliance nationality attachment roots home self-respect self-esteem	Hugo Hamilton
20de803	you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own	responsibility inspirational resourcefulness accountability self-reliance ownership self-help	Kerry E. Wagner
9ba1f42	I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.	self-reliance	Charlotte Brontë
15f12ab	You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.	independence love inspirational self-reliance	Kahlil Gibran
5829965	Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.	individuality self-trust self-reliance	Henry David Thoreau
25b8298	You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.	motivational life self-reliance	Darren Shan
e74fbe6	"She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself."	individuality self-awareness self-reliance search	Iain Pears
82f8edd	"I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag."	identity religion self-reliance nationality home jewish	Michael Chabon
959d8bc	The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or later. You have to -- I don't know --you have to learn to live with yourself. You have to learn to turn back your own sheets and set a table for one without feeling pathetic. You have to be strong and confident and pleased with yourself and never give the slightest impression that you can't hack it without that certain goddamn someone. You have to fake the hell out of it.	self-reliance	Armistead Maupin
b4c3a45	If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it.	self-reliance safety	Neal Stephenson
e9006de	"Noli me tangere, noli me legere,	solitude loneliness pain loss self-reliance isolation latin	Mark Z. Danielewski
27dacce	He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.	abuse-survivors strength overcoming-fear self-reliance escaping-abuse game-of-thrones self-worth	George R.R. Martin
0827919	She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushes, like fever, of contentment. I am beyond fear of solitude, she thought, I am past it. The idea thrilled her. I am beyond it and I will not sink. This submission, this triumph made her stronger. It was as if finally, after having passed through inferior stages, her life had found a form worthy of it.	solitude self-reliance	James Salter
020134c	Who doesn't know that the dog is the epitome of devotion? But it's this devotion to humans, so instinctual that it's given freely even to persons who are unworthy of it, that has made me prefer cats. Give me a pet that can get along without me.	dogs self-reliance devotion pets	Sigrid Nunez
3b2cfa4	When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance - wisdom, might and riches - they form a powerful inducement toward the ultimate form of pride, namely, atheism. The safest way to stay supreme in our own estimation is to deny anything above us. This is why the proud preoccupy themselves with looking down on others. A proud man is always looking down on things and people and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. But to preserve pride it may be simpler to proclaim that there is nothing above to look at (Psalm 10:4). Ultimately, the proud must persuade themselves that there is no God.	self-reliance	John Piper
fcc7ba9	If a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an udersized opinion of himself.	self-reliance pride	James Fenimore Cooper
b7b37ff	Versifying left her cold. Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you. Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.	poems prayer world poetry verse self-reliance	Colson Whitehead
c50f1dd	"If he had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still. He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.	self-reliance	Ralph Waldo Emerson
3ffa308	"He looked down at the books. There was a long silence. Then he raised his eyes and directed his gaze at Gershon, and Gershon did not look away. "I will tell you, Loran what is of importance is not that there may be nothing. We have always acknowledged that as a possibility. What is important is that if indeed there is nothing, then we should be prepared to make something out of the one thing we have left to us -- ourselves. I do not know what else to tell you, Loran. No one is in possession of all wisdom. No one." Gershon sat in silence, looking at Nathan Malkuson."	wisdom meaning-of-life self-reliance	Chaim Potok
596be29	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.	tamingmusicians humans-and-animals self-reliance	Jim Butcher
53d280f	It never happened, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there to happen. All of that has been a brutal lesson to me in not overlooking or misunderstanding what is actually there, in your hands, now. We always think the thing we need to transform everything--the miracle--is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves.	understanding self-reliance miracles possibilities transformation	Jeanette Winterson

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

solitude individuality self-determination independence self-awareness empowerment self-assurance self-sufficiency self-trust self-containment defiance self-reliance self-respect self-esteem

Charlotte Brontë

26246c4

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

philosophy inspirational lecture transcendentalism essay self-reliance social-commentary nonfiction

Ralph Waldo Emerson

c6415dc

It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.

trust loves-ones self-reliance mistakes

Jodi Picoult

71d67f1

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

self-reliance journey

Walt Whitman

ae26b5f

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

solitude individuality self-determination independence self-awareness inspirational self-assurance self-sufficiency self-trust ataraxy self-containment self-reliance self-respect self-esteem

Michel de Montaigne

cf0b8e5

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.

self-determination life inspirational self-reliance anticipation

Dr. Seuss

b320797

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.

trust self-reliance instinct

David Gemmell

acee414

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.

anchoring individuality self-determination independence self-awareness empowerment inspirational country self-assurance self-sufficiency self-trust self-containment homelessness belonging self-reliance nationality attachment roots home self-respect self-esteem

Hugo Hamilton

20de803

you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own

responsibility inspirational resourcefulness accountability self-reliance ownership self-help

Kerry E. Wagner

9ba1f42

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.

self-reliance

Charlotte Brontë

15f12ab

You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

independence love inspirational self-reliance

Kahlil Gibran

5829965

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

individuality self-trust self-reliance

Henry David Thoreau

25b8298

You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.

motivational life self-reliance

Darren Shan

e74fbe6

"She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself."

individuality self-awareness self-reliance search

Iain Pears

82f8edd

"I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag."

identity religion self-reliance nationality home jewish

Michael Chabon

959d8bc

The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or later. You have to -- I don't know --you have to learn to live with yourself. You have to learn to turn back your own sheets and set a table for one without feeling pathetic. You have to be strong and confident and pleased with yourself and never give the slightest impression that you can't hack it without that certain goddamn someone. You have to fake the hell out of it.

self-reliance

Armistead Maupin

b4c3a45

If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it.

self-reliance safety

Neal Stephenson

e9006de

"Noli me tangere, noli me legere,

solitude loneliness pain loss self-reliance isolation latin

Mark Z. Danielewski

27dacce

He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.

abuse-survivors strength overcoming-fear self-reliance escaping-abuse game-of-thrones self-worth

George R.R. Martin

0827919

She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushes, like fever, of contentment. I am beyond fear of solitude, she thought, I am past it. The idea thrilled her. I am beyond it and I will not sink. This submission, this triumph made her stronger. It was as if finally, after having passed through inferior stages, her life had found a form worthy of it.

solitude self-reliance

James Salter

020134c

Who doesn't know that the dog is the epitome of devotion? But it's this devotion to humans, so instinctual that it's given freely even to persons who are unworthy of it, that has made me prefer cats. Give me a pet that can get along without me.

dogs self-reliance devotion pets

Sigrid Nunez

3b2cfa4

When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance - wisdom, might and riches - they form a powerful inducement toward the ultimate form of pride, namely, atheism. The safest way to stay supreme in our own estimation is to deny anything above us. This is why the proud preoccupy themselves with looking down on others. A proud man is always looking down on things and people and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. But to preserve pride it may be simpler to proclaim that there is nothing above to look at (Psalm 10:4). Ultimately, the proud must persuade themselves that there is no God.

self-reliance

John Piper

fcc7ba9

If a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an udersized opinion of himself.

self-reliance pride

James Fenimore Cooper

b7b37ff

Versifying left her cold. Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you. Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.

poems prayer world poetry verse self-reliance

Colson Whitehead

c50f1dd

"If he had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still. He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.

self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson

3ffa308

"He looked down at the books. There was a long silence. Then he raised his eyes and directed his gaze at Gershon, and Gershon did not look away. "I will tell you, Loran what is of importance is not that there may be nothing. We have always acknowledged that as a possibility. What is important is that if indeed there is nothing, then we should be prepared to make something out of the one thing we have left to us -- ourselves. I do not know what else to tell you, Loran. No one is in possession of all wisdom. No one." Gershon sat in silence, looking at Nathan Malkuson."

wisdom meaning-of-life self-reliance

Chaim Potok

596be29

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.

tamingmusicians humans-and-animals self-reliance

Jim Butcher

53d280f

It never happened, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there to happen. All of that has been a brutal lesson to me in not overlooking or misunderstanding what is actually there, in your hands, now. We always think the thing we need to transform everything--the miracle--is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves.

understanding self-reliance miracles possibilities transformation

Jeanette Winterson