#reliance

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

#individuality #search #self-awareness #self-reliance #dreams

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#self-actualization #self-awareness #self-reliance #awareness

We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum. ↗

— Lisa Murkowski

#nation #need #petroleum #reliance

I'd rather die my way than live yours. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#lena-holoway #self-determination #self-reliance #die

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#lack #poverty #self-reliance

Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#blind #confidence #conviction #dependence #dimness

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #lecture #nonfiction #philosophy #self-reliance

Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#god #inspirational #reliance #inspirational

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#independence #self-reliance #money

Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself — no helper hast thou here — 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

#solitude #nature