Baruch Spinoza Quotes

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

I would rather clean than beg.

Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

I have a strong preference for being alive.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

I've lost jobs before; I've had contracts not renewed, and it didn't get me down. I didn't get upset; I just keep it moving. That has always been the case, and that will always be the case. You must look out for you.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear.

I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.

Never count on the crowd to take care of you.

Do whatever you want to persevere, work for your own things, and do not depend on anyone to be your provider. That way, in the future, you will be all right regardless of the circumstances.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

Remember we're all in this alone.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.