Self Sufficency Quotes & Sayings

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation
to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships. — Derrick A. Bell

If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race," returned the Ghost, "will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief. — Charles Dickens

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say. — Raymond Smullyan

You don't ask people to sacrifice their lives until the nation has debated and committed to the mission. It's immoral. — Tim Kaine

It's all about the mood I'm in and the scene I'm writing. 'Cause work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. So I don't listen to any music that's not an influence on what I'm working on that day. Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go. — Lemon Andersen

I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection. — Vince Lombardi

If he knew one thing about life, it was this: look out for yourself. No one else would do it for you. If you were cheated or tricked, it was your own fault, and a lesson best learned before the world devoured you. — Kelley Armstrong

You could say that tidying orders the mind while cleaning purifies it. — Marie Kondo

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry. — Plautus

Grumble weakens the spirit.
Despair is counterproductive.
Both are true toxicants in life. — Toba Beta

There comes ... a longing never to travel again except on foot. — Wendell Berry

In large studio paintings ... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded ... — Walter J. Phillips

He was also terrified that he hadn't properly read the small print of their relationship. He forgot that true friendship is a contract in which there can be no small print. — Gilbert Adair

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. — Bobby Scott

When the government sees a poor area, its solution is to move the poor out. — Greg Gutfeld

Start by loving, instead of needing. — Paolo Bacigalupi