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

Book:Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

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“At thirty-nine, I learned how to change a tyre, how to shovel snow, how to stack wood. I learned how to meet a deadline without a shoulder to whine on. I became obsessed with firewood. If only there was alsways a fire in the fireplace, I knew that everything would be all right. (Prometheus must have been a women. I reverted to my ancient nature: inventing fire all day, having my liver plucked out all night.)”

Self Sufficiency

Book:Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir

Source: Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir

“The business of procuring the necessities of life has been shifted from the wood lot, the garden, the kitchen and the family to the factory and the large-scale enterprise. In our case, we moved our center back to the land.”

Land Self Sufficiency

Book:The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living

Source: The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living

“Whenever you feel down, remember it is always daylight somewhere on this rock we call Earth. Whenever you are belittled by a human, remember that she or he does not represent the whole for the Earth is way bigger than any puny creature you may encounter.”

Hope Quotes Helplessness Bullied Self Sufficiency Courage In Life Facing Challenges Feeling Down Facing Fears Feelings Of Weakness

Book:Aether

Source: Aether

“You can’t get hurt when you love someone from the other side of an estuary.”

Self Sufficiency

Book:Where the Crawdads Sing

Source: Where the Crawdads Sing

“You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself.”

Community Pride Self Sufficiency

Book:The Two Towers

Source: The Two Towers

“The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.”

Community Perfectionism Dependency Self Sufficiency Aging Well Isolation Loneliness

Book:This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

Source: This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

“Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again”

Life Lessons

Author:Og Mandino

“I thought you’d be entirely self-sufficient.”“Oh I am,” I shoot back. “You should see my vibrator collection.”

Self Sufficiency Vibrators

Book:Smut

Source: Smut

“She was herself unconscious of that faint hint of offishness which hung about her and repelled advances, an arrogance that stirred in people a peculiar irritation. They noticed her, admired her clothes, but that was all, for the self-sufficient uninterested manner adopted instinctively as a protective measure for her acute sensitiveness, in her child days, still clung to her.”

Personality Arrogance Sensitivity Irritation Self Sufficiency Sociability Standoffishness

Book:The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

Source: The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

“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.”

Thinking Pride Self Sufficiency

Author:James MacDonald

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