Jyoti Amge Quotes

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

I don't want a life without my mom in it, but I'm not someone who curls up in the fetal position and says, 'Mommy, take care of me!' I don't like people catering to me. It feels so awkward and uncomfortable.

I don't want to be a burden on anybody.

Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.

I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.

Alone I can do nothing.

I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me.

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

Those who ask for help are often those who have failed to do something for themselves.

People naturally despise a dependant.

I’d like to take care of someone but at the same time I like girls who are independent.

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you.

Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone

You know when grandparents get older and they can't do things for themselves anymore? I'm gonna struggle with that. Because I hate depending on people to do anything for me.

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busybodies and professional "public morals experts" in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.

I once heard a man say he knew there was a God, he just didn't think he needed Him. It is nice to take care of yourself and be independent, but it is also nice to know that you have a resource to rely on in times of need. If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.