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fec94b8 care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. defiance empowerment independence individuality self-assurance self-awareness self-containment self-determination self-esteem self-reliance self-respect self-sufficiency self-trust solitude Charlotte Brontë
ae26b5f The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. independence individuality inspirational self-assurance self-awareness self-containment self-determination self-esteem self-reliance self-respect self-sufficiency self-trust solitude ataraxy Michel de Montaigne
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 attachment belonging country empowerment home homelessness independence individuality inspirational nationality roots self-assurance self-awareness self-containment self-determination self-esteem self-reliance self-respect self-sufficiency self-trust Hugo Hamilton
5913e2c I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything. love protection responsibility self-sufficiency solitude P.D. James
a5c0eb4 Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. happiness life reading self-sufficiency Saul Bellow
00065c6 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. faith god independence prayer self-sufficiency Fulton J. Sheen
985919f Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery? faith materialism self-sufficiency temptation wealth Randy Alcorn
87844fc She was herself unconscious of that faint hint of offishness which hung about her and repelled advances, an arrogance that stirred in people a peculiar irritation. They noticed her, admired her clothes, but that was all, for the self-sufficient uninterested manner adopted instinctively as a protective measure for her acute sensitiveness, in her child days, still clung to her. irritation personality self-sufficiency sensitivity sociability standoffishness Nella Larsen