Quotes On: Self-reliance

Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.

I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, taking and discarding as you see fit.

To place the responsibility for your happiness on anybody other than yourself is a recipe for misery.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can, build your hope on none.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.