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...

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist…This concentrated focus has brought some benefits…It may also be a modern malady. Specialization, when taken too far and allowed to define...

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

This time Elizabeth Ann didn’t answer, because she herself didn’t know what the matter was. But I do, and I’ll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing...

The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom, it seems to me, is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums;...

Everybody in the world, must work to earn a living.

I might be alone, but i’m never lonely.

Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else’s authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined...

The opinions of others cannot damage you.

Words of the hero: “I am my fate.

You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves.

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

If the light’s not in you, you’re in the dark.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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

A breath, to keep one going, must be one’s own.

The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.

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

Most people spend their lives vulnerable, relying on the rest of the world to not take advantage of it.

Equip yourself for your own needs.

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation...

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...

If you’d called me an ox, I’d have said I was an ox; if you’d called me a horse, I’d have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to...

There are some who want to get married and others who don’t. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can...

Marriage is a fine institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.

For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves

Go small, go simple, go now

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

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...

We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, “I don’t need God!” We must demolish every non-God story of life. We must pulverize every God-is-not-good life narrative.

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...