The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“It is important to know when to tune out of people, and when to tune into yourself.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency." — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
“master the tools of keeping healthy and building the platform of self-sufficiency that is necessary to choose yourself.” — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human. — Abraham Joshua Heschel 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
“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
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
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
Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
“But the root of all sin is self-sufficiency—independence from the rule of God. When we fail to wait prayerfully for God’s guidance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe… — H. P. Lovecraft 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
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
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
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
A little prosperity and peace, or even a turn slightly for the better, can bring us feelings of self-sufficiency. We can feel… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“Certainly it is true that we need to maintain independence in certain areas of life. We must not be passive but active… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still… — Agnes Chew 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
It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor… — Aristotle 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great. — David Platt Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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 raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
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