Quotes about self-sufficiency

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

— John Cage

Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.

— John Donne

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

— Shirley Maclaine

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Let me listen to myself and not to them.

— Gertrude Stein