While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“The business of procuring the necessities of life has been shifted from the wood lot, the garden, the kitchen and the family… — Helen Nearing Copy Share Image
Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers], Ivy [Wilkes] has a long way to go in order to achieve self-sufficiency. Although… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke.… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Where is peace to be found? The answer is surprising but clear. In weakness. Why there? Because in our weakness, our familiar… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I'm stoned on my music. I'm intoxicated by my joyful calendar between the tours, and the hunting, and the charity work, and… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals… The familybecame a special… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
“I had come to worry about those women who were full-time mothers and homemakers by choice. Did other, more career-minded women have… — Lin Pardey Copy Share Image
“I should understand the land, not as a commodity, an inert fact to be taken for granted, but as an ultimate value,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their… — Kenneth Bacon Copy Share Image
The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
“It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Rocky, if I’ve learned anything from my train wreck of a marriage, it’s that no one can take care of me better… — Starr Ambrose Copy Share Image
The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers. — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
“Total self-sufficiency turns out to be a daydream whose bubble is burst by the sharp edge of the limbic brain. Stability means… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
I believe in greater self-sufficiency. International sport is tough, no doubt, but there shouldn't be too many crutches. In most cases sports… — Glenn Turner Copy Share Image
The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by… — Cody Lundin Copy Share Image
The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary. — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them,… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The free market promotes self-worth, self-sufficiency, shared values, and honest dealings, which enhance the individual, the family, and the community. It discriminates… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener,… — Al Murray Copy Share Image
The myth of self-sufficiency blinds us to the workings of other forces in family life. For families are not now, nor were… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“The store customer, who comes home with a package under his arm has learned nothing, except that a ten dollar bill is… — Helen Nearing Copy Share Image
The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who… — Florence King Copy Share Image
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