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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.
- Walter Brueggemann
I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
- Robert Kiyosaki
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.
- Cicero
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
- Walt Whitman