{"quotes":[{"text":"Words of the hero: 'I am my fate.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["fate","heroism","self-sufficiency"],"id":4974,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free. And you can't hold this up as your own tragedy, for your birth is a tragedy of Fate alone. Hapless you are, however, if life itself so oppresses you that you're forced to become a slave. Hapless you are if, having been born free, with the capacity to be isolated and self-sufficient, poverty should force you to live with others.","author":"Fernando Pessoa","tags":["freedom","isolation","self-sufficiency","servant","slave","slavery"],"id":11744,"author_id":"Fernando+Pessoa"},{"text":"A breath, to keep one going, must be one's own.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["endurance","self-sufficiency"],"id":33139,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"I might be alone, but I'm never lonely.","author":"Megan Hart","tags":["self-sufficiency","solitude"],"id":33927,"author_id":"Megan+Hart"},{"text":"For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves.","author":"Sandra Kring","tags":["friend","self-sufficiency","self-worth"],"id":35675,"author_id":"Sandra+Kring"},{"text":"Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.","author":"William Nicholson","tags":["c-s-lewis","god","salvation","self-sufficiency"],"id":36651,"author_id":"William+Nicholson"},{"text":"Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?","author":"Randy Alcorn","tags":["dependence","faith","materialism","self-sufficiency","temptation","wealth"],"id":36917,"author_id":"Randy+Alcorn"},{"text":"Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.","author":"Mary Elizabeth Braddon","tags":["ataraxy","individuality","reclusiveness","self containment","self reliance","self-sufficiency","silence","solitude"],"id":40189,"author_id":"Mary+Elizabeth+Braddon"},{"text":"We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, 'I don't need God!' We must demolish every non-God story of life. We must pulverize every God-is-not-good life narrative.","author":"James MacDonald","tags":["pride","self-sufficiency","thinking"],"id":40972,"author_id":"James+MacDonald"},{"text":"They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.","author":"J.G. Ballard","tags":["acquaintances","ballard","dissapointment","high-rise","j-g-ballard","james-graham-ballard","jg-ballard","living","self-sufficiency"],"id":45042,"author_id":"J.G.+Ballard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}