Varg Vikernes Quotes

I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.

Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because their might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready.

At 14 I had no choice but to live with my brother, on our own, without adults, with all the responsibilities, decisions and day-to-day practicalities of living independently. I had, though, the joy of earning my own money.

I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

I'm not like Puff Daddy, I hold my own umbrella.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

If you ain't got socks, you ain't got much. But if you got 'em, you might as well pull 'em up. It's a statement of self-sufficiency. We should all be more self-governed.

I definitely had to pave my own path, which wasn't always the easiest thing to do.

I was raised to be independent.

Whatever I do I will do on my own strength.

At the end of the day, I come from a culture and an upbringing where you create your own path. There is no seat at the table for you? You create your own opportunity.

The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.

But I don't pay much attention to outside influences. People can say what they want. I always try to focus on my own environment.

I've learned not to buy into what other people say. I've learned not to put dreams in other people's hands.

I don't want to be coddled.

I've always been very independent; I take care of myself.

My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don't need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis.

As an only child, you've got to stand up for yourself.

Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.

Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.