Self Sufficient Quotes
91 quotes by 84 authors
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Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do…
— William Nicholson
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However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor;…
— Derrick Bell
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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything…
— Tove Jansson
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made…
— Francoise Sagan
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To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that…
— Ayn Rand
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Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these…
— Parker J. Palmer
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I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.
— Veronica Roth
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Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing…
— Veronica Roth
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God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Men have never been individually self-sufficient.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important…
— Erin O'Connor
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The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but…
— Scott Anderson
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In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church. Striving to be…
— Scott Anderson
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LearnVest provides women with the necessary tools and resources to manage their personal finances; its core mission, to positively contribute to society through education and,…
— Alexa Von Tobel
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We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient.
— Bunker Roy
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