I was thinking about this when I read an article about Self Reliance and realized how I’ve been following these steps without anyone ever teaching them to me. I thought that it could benefit the readers of my site. Hope you get something out of this.
Self Reliance
- Assume Responsibility.
- Be informed.
- Know where you are going.
- Make your own decisions.
Favorite quote by Ralph Waldo:
“Ne te quaesiveris extra.” (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)
“Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”
“It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”