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Self-Sufficiency
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“But those days are over / When it was expedient for two deer / To walk together, / Since anyone can see and remove / The beam in his eye with a mirror.”
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“She listens to her own tales, / Laughs at her own jokes and / Follows her own advice.”
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“... I plant geraniums. / I tie up my hair into loose braids, / and trust only what I have built / with my own hands.”
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“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ”
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“... in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.”
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“It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.”
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“The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.”
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“Let them think I love them more than I do, / Let them think I care, though I go alone, / If it lifts their pride, what is it to me / Who am self-complete as a flower or a stone.”
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“... when I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.”
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“No person could save another.”
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“I don't need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves.”
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“... trust that still, small voice that says, 'This might work and I'll try it.'”
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“Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.”
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“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.”