#sufficiency

Karou wished she could be the kind of girl who was complete unto herself, comfortable in solitude, serene. But she wasn't. She was lonely, and she feared the missingness within her as if it might expand and...cancel her. She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#self-sufficiency #trust

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #different #difficulties #distinction #envy

I guess there are never enough books. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#reading #sufficiency #reading-books

I should understand the land, not as a commodity, an inert fact to be taken for granted, but as an ultimate value, enduring and alive, useful and beautiful and mysterious and formidable and comforting, beneficent and terribly demanding, worthy of the best of man's attention and care... [My father] insisted that I learn to do the hand labor that the land required, knowing--and saying again and again--that the ability to do such work is the source of a confidence and an independence of character that can come no other way, not by money, not by education. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#land #self-sufficiency #beauty

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#man #need #sufficiency #world

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#ideal #interdependence #man #much #ought

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#gardening #self-sufficiency #art

Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort. ↗

— Larry Crabb

#christ #comfort #repentance #self #sufficiency

Equip yourself for your own needs. ↗

— Patti Digh

#self-sufficiency #strength-and-courage #courage

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery