Self Reliance Quotes
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“Your possibilities are limited only by your imagination.”
― Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
― Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“So how do I overcome my fear of vulnerability and intimacy?"
"I don't think that ever goes away. I think that the goal is to just choose to tend to the garden of love and bliss, instead of trying to focus on how to remove the weeds of fear. There will always be weeds in a garden. Don't fixate on the weeds. Just tend to the flowers. Be your own source of love, comfort and bliss, and that will radiate. Never see yourself as someone who will lose love if she loses a man.”
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"I don't think that ever goes away. I think that the goal is to just choose to tend to the garden of love and bliss, instead of trying to focus on how to remove the weeds of fear. There will always be weeds in a garden. Don't fixate on the weeds. Just tend to the flowers. Be your own source of love, comfort and bliss, and that will radiate. Never see yourself as someone who will lose love if she loses a man.”
―

“There are people who鈥檇 rather be wrong, standing with the crowd, than be right standing alone.”
― The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life
― The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life

“Bad instructors teach you what to think, worse ones teach you how to think, but the good ones teach you how important it is to learn to think for yourself.”
― A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation
― A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“The thing is, not every happily ever after needs to end with a Prince Charming”
― The Life Intended
― The Life Intended

“You are the ink, pen and paper, your life is your own decision.”
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“...you cannot count friends that are all packed up in barrels.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Ho sempre voluto farcela da solo, con i miei sforzi, senza chiedere nulla a nessuno.”
― Meetings With Remarkable Men
― Meetings With Remarkable Men

“no one is qualified to decide your worth
you wake up and live your life every day
yours is the only opinion of you
that matters”
― Home Body
you wake up and live your life every day
yours is the only opinion of you
that matters”
― Home Body

“To impress me: make up your own mind; follow your own heart; and march to the beat of your own drum. Otherwise, I don't have time for you. I really don't.”
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“Self-determination makes one unfit for slavery, reason makes one unfit for manipulation.”
― Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
― Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Every boon is a curse, every curse is a boon.”
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Mind is the sentient seed of all time and tide, yet we hide like roaches behind fate's fake hide.”
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Fate and Future (The Sonnet)
Fate and future both are servant to the determined,
For they are nothing but creation of human determination.
Yet most of humanity remain oblivious to this simple fact,
For they鈥檙e born and raised in a society run by indoctrination.
Reason and questions are seen as treason against heritage,
Submission and guilt are praised as honorable righteousness.
Calling ignorance as righteousness doesn't make one righteous,
You are righteous when you have the guts to mend mistakes.
Ignorance is part of life, so is our drive for self-aggrandizing,
It's human to make mistakes, what's not, is their glorification.
Acknowledge your mistakes, biases, ignorance and prejudice,
We start to rise when we acknowledge our degradation.
Our ancestors were primitive humans with unused goodness.
If we die primitive like they did, why live in the first place!”
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
Fate and future both are servant to the determined,
For they are nothing but creation of human determination.
Yet most of humanity remain oblivious to this simple fact,
For they鈥檙e born and raised in a society run by indoctrination.
Reason and questions are seen as treason against heritage,
Submission and guilt are praised as honorable righteousness.
Calling ignorance as righteousness doesn't make one righteous,
You are righteous when you have the guts to mend mistakes.
Ignorance is part of life, so is our drive for self-aggrandizing,
It's human to make mistakes, what's not, is their glorification.
Acknowledge your mistakes, biases, ignorance and prejudice,
We start to rise when we acknowledge our degradation.
Our ancestors were primitive humans with unused goodness.
If we die primitive like they did, why live in the first place!”
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Dimension destiny unfolds only in the human heart.”
― M眉cadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
― M眉cadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Bearing crisis upon crisis, we shall rise as creator.”
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Better a lion in sheep's skin, than a sheep in lion's skin.”
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“I say again, lion on the inside, sheep on the out. When chihuahuas wreak havoc, let the dinosaur out.”
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“And sometimes, when I find that sweet solitude, I hear warnings about isolation. Some summers, when I was alone in the wilderness, content in my tiny trailer at the edge of the lake, I would not speak to or see another human being for weeks. There, I could slow it all down. I felt the power of life being lived around and within me. I became like a sun warmed rock in the centre of the stream. The water parted around me, eddied in spirals, and flowed on, gently wearing away all my sharp edges.
Once, a man who is my lover and friend, I wanted to be more, came to see me there unexpectedly. I had just split an arm load of wood and was carrying it into the trailer as he appeared. He stayed only briefly. Later he told me, 鈥淲hen I came down the driveway and saw you standing there with the wood in your arms, your face glowing from the wind off the lake and the effort of chopping wood, I thought, 鈥楽he belongs to this place. She鈥檚 at home here, alone in the bush. She鈥檚 not missing me, doesn鈥檛 need me here.鈥� I felt like an intruder.鈥�
His observation surprised me. I heard the voice of my mother warning, 鈥淵ou are too independent. Don鈥檛 get too good at being alone or you鈥檒l end up by yourself. Everyone needs someone.鈥�
Her fear finds a small corner in me, but I resist the idea that I will be with another only to avoid being alone. Surely, the ability to truly be with myself does not exclude the willingness to fully be with another. I do not seek isolation. The longing for another remains even when I am able to be with myself, although it is smaller, a whisper that tugs at me gently. Even there, in my place of solitude in the wilderness, I found myself at moments wanting to turn to someone and share my awe at the brilliance of the full moon on the still water, the delight of watching otters playing at the edge of the stream. But the loneliness was bittersweet and bearable because I knew myself and the world in a way I sometimes do not when I let my life become too full of doing things that do not really need to be done.”
― The Invitation
Once, a man who is my lover and friend, I wanted to be more, came to see me there unexpectedly. I had just split an arm load of wood and was carrying it into the trailer as he appeared. He stayed only briefly. Later he told me, 鈥淲hen I came down the driveway and saw you standing there with the wood in your arms, your face glowing from the wind off the lake and the effort of chopping wood, I thought, 鈥楽he belongs to this place. She鈥檚 at home here, alone in the bush. She鈥檚 not missing me, doesn鈥檛 need me here.鈥� I felt like an intruder.鈥�
His observation surprised me. I heard the voice of my mother warning, 鈥淵ou are too independent. Don鈥檛 get too good at being alone or you鈥檒l end up by yourself. Everyone needs someone.鈥�
Her fear finds a small corner in me, but I resist the idea that I will be with another only to avoid being alone. Surely, the ability to truly be with myself does not exclude the willingness to fully be with another. I do not seek isolation. The longing for another remains even when I am able to be with myself, although it is smaller, a whisper that tugs at me gently. Even there, in my place of solitude in the wilderness, I found myself at moments wanting to turn to someone and share my awe at the brilliance of the full moon on the still water, the delight of watching otters playing at the edge of the stream. But the loneliness was bittersweet and bearable because I knew myself and the world in a way I sometimes do not when I let my life become too full of doing things that do not really need to be done.”
― The Invitation

“The only way to counteract feelings of helplessness, indecision, and defeatism is to act. The most powerful attitude you can own when it comes to your future is self-reliance, because when it comes to your retirement, it's really up to you to take care of you.”
― Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
― Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny

“The one mistake I made was in thinking that someone could save me. [...] You can't wait for someone else to save you from the life you made for yourself. If I teach you girls anything, I hope it's how to gird up your loins and face the fate that's yours.”
― The Star Side of Bird Hill
― The Star Side of Bird Hill

“A woman who can handle a dog is pretty damn cool. If she can take care of such a demanding creature, most likely she can take pretty good care of herself.”
― The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for the Uncommon Woman
― The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for the Uncommon Woman

“If you are born in the States, you've won a geographical jackpot. If you are born in a rich family, you've won a hereditary jackpot. I had neither. So I pulled myself up by my own bootstraps and turned my name into a nationality of its own, and my life into a heritage of its own - the nationality of assimilation, and the heritage of self-determination.”
― Bulldozer on Duty
― Bulldozer on Duty
“We succumb to our fears and let them carry us into mirrored wastelands. Non-conformity is courage, and it is freedom, but by definition it will not be rewarded socially.”
― Mystical Mushroom Musings
― Mystical Mushroom Musings
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