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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. — Abraham Lincoln

[H]e developed a private philosophy of total self-reliance, an unyielding internal sufficiency that requires no external support from others. — Chinua Achebe

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. — Saul Bellow

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

Equip yourself for your own needs. — Patti Digh

Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes — Harold Bloom

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate. — Bruce Lee

God has never been impressed with strength or self-sufficiency. In fact, he is drawn to people who are weak and admit it. — Rick Warren

Water has never known thirst. — Marty Rubin

If the light's not in you, you're in the dark. — Marty Rubin

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency." — Tullian Tchividjian

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency. — Epicurus

I admire the fog, how it fades into itself. — Marty Rubin

Words of the hero: "I am my fate. — Marty Rubin

The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case. — Richelle E. Goodrich

But certainly, their lives are such as very often produce either inordinate self-sufficiency, or a morbid state of conscience. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends. — Harold S. Kushner

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead. — Greta Garbo

Most people spend their lives vulnerable, relying on the rest of the world to not take advantage of it. — Kris Rafferty

The opinions of others cannot damage you. — Veronica Roth

My sufficiency is in the sufficiency of Jesus Christ. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. — Susan B. Anthony

I might be alone, but i'm never lonely. — Megan Hart

For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves — Sandra Kring

You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself. — J.R.R. Tolkien

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance. — William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling. — Marc Maron

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. — Christopher Hitchens

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything. — P.D. James

You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency. — James H. Douglas Jr.

To do it all and deprive others of doing is ... a misguided notion. — Jan Karon

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. — Elizabeth I

The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom. — Epicurus

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. — Joseph Addison

Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great. — David Platt

Rocky, if I've learned anything from my train wreck of a marriage, it's that no one can take care of me better than I can. — Starr Ambrose

A breath, to keep one going, must be one's own. — Marty Rubin

The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom. — Epicurus

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery? — Randy Alcorn

Go small, go simple, go now — Larry Pardey

I thought you'd be entirely self-sufficient.""Oh I am," I shoot back. "You should see my vibrator collection. — Karina Halle

My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you. — Joyce Carol Oates

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good. — Aristotle.

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. — Mahatma Gandhi

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth . — Epicurus

English restrictive legislation merely hastened the process and inadvertently pushed Americans toward self-sufficiency. At — Robert G. Ahearn