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“For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Jerry-5486: "The most apparent thing that I noticed was how most of the people in this study derive their sense of identity and well-being from their immediate surroundings rather than from within themselves, and that's why they broke down鈥攋ust couldn't stand the pressure鈥攖hey had nothing within them to hold up against all of this.”
― Philip G. Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

“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.”
― Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union

“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.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.”
― Cody Lundin, When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes

“Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.”
― Joe Frazier

“Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Self-education is lifelong curiosity.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.”
― Nancy Kress, Steal Across the Sky

“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out or own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometimes we can ask God to help us and He will.”
― Michael Grant, Gone

“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.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.”
― Louis Simpson, People Live Here: Selected Poems 1949-1983

“Here must thou be, O man,
Strength to thyself 鈥� no helper hast thou here 鈥�
Here keepest thou thy individual state:
No other can divide with thee this work,
No secondary hand can intervene
To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine,
The prime and vital principle is thine
In the recesses of thy nature, far
From any reach of outward fellowship,
Else 'tis not thine at all.”
― William Wordsworth, The Prelude

“Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired. Our sympathy is just as base. We come to them who weep foolishly, and sit down and cry for company, instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“* Be ready for rainy-day emergencies
* Avoid excessive debt; be content with what we have
* Use the resources of the earth wisely; don麓t be wasteful
* Prepare for the future by making spending and savings plans
* Keep a family or personal budget
* Teach children wise spending habits and help them save for the future
* Obtain an education or vocational training
* Find gainful employment


As we become self-reliant, we will be prepared to face challenges with confidence and peace of mind.”
― Robert D. Hales

“My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The faith that stands on authority is not faith. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What鈥檚 the most difficult thing you can do? Live simply. 鈥楥ause in order to be self-sufficient, you got to get well near everybody else to work for you.”
― M.C. Humphreys

“The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson Self Reliance

“The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not
realities and creators, but names and customs.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson Self Reliance

“Let a Stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear; that a man is the word made flesh, born to shed healing to the nations, that he should be ashamed of our compassion, and that the moment he acts from himself, tossing the laws, the books, idolatries, and customs out of the window, we pity him no more, but thank and revere him, 鈥� and that teacher shall restore the life of man to splendor, and make his name dear to all history.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“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.”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

“That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays