In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiIt may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.
J. R. R. TolkienCreate a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.
Robert GreeneI change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.
David BowieOne of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
Wayne DyerI don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
Noam ChomskyIt is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.
Bob MarleyAll of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
John C. MaxwellDo not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
John RuskinI’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.
Amy WinehouseWhen you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.
Abraham LincolnA fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William ShakespeareWe choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.
John C. MaxwellI’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.
Dolly PartonShall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Henry David ThoreauI have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
Paulo CoelhoI gave my archive to Emory University because there’s a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he’s the editor.
Alice WalkerIt is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.
Henry AdamsI think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
Lady GagaThe Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?
Muhammad AliNo one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
ConfuciusIf you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.
Taylor SwiftScience arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThere was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.
EminemIt was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous HuxleyEgos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.
Sunil ChhetriThe only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
Abraham LincolnWhat is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham MaslowAn identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
James BaldwinNever contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
ConfuciusOften, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
Eckhart TolleAny man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.
Mr. TThe deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
Stephen CoveyI think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
Lou HoltzHe who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon BonaparteYou must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim RohnWhat a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Dan QuayleEverything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl JungImaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
John RuskinAlways make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.
Robert GreeneMeditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiDemonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.
Jim MattisA man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel JohnsonIt is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Lao TzuWe are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen HawkingIf all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise PascalEvery spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLet each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
Nelson MandelaIf I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.
Gordon RamsayActors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.
Clint EastwoodSelf-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.
David GogginsThe utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph AddisonFame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
Marilyn MonroeI’m not good at talking about myself.
Kamala HarrisIf the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Winston ChurchillI’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
Karl Lagerfeld