#sufficiency

In yourself right now is all the place you've got. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#empowerment #independence #individuality #self-assurance #self-awareness

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 store customer, who comes home with a package under his arm has learned nothing, except that a ten dollar bill is a source of power in the market place. The man or woman who has converted material into needed products via tools and skills has matured in the process. ↗

— Helen Nearing

#home

Words of the hero: "I am my fate. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#heroism #self-sufficiency #heroism

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - And Wilderness is Paradise enow. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#companionship #life #love #paradise #poetry

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything. ↗

— P.D. James

#love #protection #responsibility #self-sufficiency #solitude

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#bachelorhood #empowerment #freedom #independence #individuality

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 not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him. ↗

— William Nicholson

#god #salvation #self-sufficiency #salvation