Quotes about Self-sufficiency

In his great act of humility and washing, he broke with all the models of humanity that are visible in our own time and place: the rat race of productivity, the fear for survival, the frenzy of accumulation, and the deathly sense of self-sufficiency.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.

Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.