Charles de Lint Quotes

Nobody else will ever be able to save me if I’m not fighting as hard as I can to save myself.

From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.

But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

I cant save you, you have to save yourself.

Do yourself a favor, become your own savior.

My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.

One of the most scariest thing in life,is when you come to the realization that the only thing that can save you,is...yourself Demi lovato

I am a capable person, and I can handle anything that comes my way

Be the cure. Don't look outside yourself for it.

Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to do it? She has always somehow known that she is the one who will have to rescue herself. Or maybe what's depressing is that this knowledge seems like it should make life easier, and instead it makes it harder.

In this world him who does not abandon himself the Almighty will not desert. Him who helps himself will the Almighty always also help; He will show him the way by which he can gain his rights, his freedom, and therefore his future.

The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.

The world will not help, the people must help themselves. Its own strength is the source of life. That strength the Almighty has given us to use; that in it and through it, we may wage the battle of our life The others in the past years have not had the blessing of the Almighty - of Him who in the last resort, whatever man may do, holds in His hands the final decision. Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward.

Who will save your soul, if you won’t save your own?

Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.

Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.

I think that you're just as close to Jesus if you use the equipment he gave you other than to call on him to do for you what you can do for yourself.

People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they ARE the magic wand.

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.

You are the leader you've been waiting for.

You are the creator of your own destiny

Believe in yourself. Have faith in yourself because no one else is going to.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.