Mary H.K. Choi Quotes

I am a very independent person, and I, you know, I maintain that independence, but, you know, certain things - I mean, it takes, you know, it's just much easier for other people if other people can help you every now and again.

Alone I'm nothing.

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

You like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. It doesn't make you weak.

I'm not good at accepting help.

If I could leave anybody with anything, it's this - if you need help, ask for it.

but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

I really don't like that modern notion of 'I don't need anyone.' I see a lot of young women feeling they have to be that way, they have to be hard, in a way. And what does that bring them? They're just going to be lonesome. They're going to be, at best, lonesome and capable, at worst, lonesome and hard. And is that what we want? No.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him.

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.

There is no nation on the earth that wants, for its security, to depend on anybody else.

I cannot live alone.

I can't throw the ball to myself.

Anything you're not in control of you can't be that comfortable with.

I don't ever want to have to need someone again - where you feel like, without them, you can't be yourself.

It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

He who says he never needs help, most does.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.