Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

I am very hands on doing my own work, all my own stunt work.

I mow my own lawn.

Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way.

I've always took care of myself.

If you don't look after yourself, no one else will.

If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

We are all individuals. I can't eat for you and you can't eat for me. I can't sleep for you and you can sleep for me. We are absolutely all individuals. When our purpose is fulfilled, it feels beautiful. That is, to me, the feeling of fulfillment.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now.

I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

Women no longer need to be in a relationship. You can pay for your own life, you can have children on your own, basically do whatever you want on your own. So if you're going to create an addition to your life, it should be about love. That makes me happy.

Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?

Don't do anything that someone else can do.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.