Quotes about Self-sufficiency

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

One may be strengthened & fed without the aid of Joy, & no one knows it better than I do; & I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one's center of life inside of one's self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one's inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?

often the rich, the religious, and the self-sufficient know nothing about self-surrender. Jesus

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

We have become food consumers, not food producers or makers. We have outsourced our cooking to corporations.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.