Self-sufficiency Quotes

The opinions of others cannot damage you.

The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, b...

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If ...

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...

I call this a Divine Humility because it is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship i...

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, un...

…But so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts a...

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to...

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact w...

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to th...

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the to...

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

We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, "I don't ne...

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

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

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

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anyt...