Self Sufficiency Quotes

The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.

The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within her which appears to decay and to grow old and to be useless she changes into herself, and again makes other new things from these very same, so that she requires neither substance from without nor wants a place into which she may cast that which decays. She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art.

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.