I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
John LennonI’m not a god – I do bad things.
Jackie ChanI mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.
Beyonce KnowlesOur judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.
AristotleI never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.
LeBron JamesJust as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
Brian TracyThat’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.
RihannaBeauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Khalil GibranThe paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James BaldwinPeople seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRemember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Stephen CoveyPeople everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.
Joe BidenJust talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?
Joe BidenWhile the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.
Herbert HooverPeople who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
Stephen HawkingWhen I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.
Haruki MurakamiWhen dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale CarnegieI’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
Denzel WashingtonIn nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLondon is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don’t know.
Oscar WildeI can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.
Dolly PartonReally, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.
Mark ZuckerbergNo man is hurt but by himself.
DiogenesNothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon BonaparteMany people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
Eckhart TolleThere is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund BurkeTo observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.
Alexander PopeI am not a particularly thick-skinned person.
J. K. RowlingLove… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Khalil GibranThe truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.
Jordan PetersonBecause you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
BonoReal riches are the riches possessed inside.
B. C. ForbesI used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.
Joyce MeyerI tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.
Anthony HopkinsWell, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.
Bill GatesYou’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.
EminemLook at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
ConfuciusThe misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
EpicurusThere’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.
Joel OsteenBut blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander PopeParting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
Emily DickinsonI can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.
Nelson MandelaPride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.
John C. MaxwellFor me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.
David BowieFreedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald ReaganNo, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.
Karl LagerfeldKnowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl JungMirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph AddisonWhen I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
Wayne DyerI seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
Salvador DaliI fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.
Charles SpurgeonMan’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas CarlyleFor a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.
Carl JungFirst love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard ShawAnger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis BaconIf I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.
Tom BradyShall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Henry David ThoreauWhen you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.
Sunil ChhetriI am in my own head most of the time.
Vivienne WestwoodThere are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.
Matthew McConaughey