In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
Arthur SchopenhauerOne of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar WildeI don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
Jim CarreyIndians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.
Narendra ModiHuman beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William JamesDon’t be afraid to see what you see.
Ronald ReaganI am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
VoltaireI was raised to be independent.
Abby Lee MillerMy wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.
Lou HoltzLove is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao TzuIt isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
Groucho MarxWisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI never do anything that I don’t want to do.
Kevin HartWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John MuirNo matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
Madeleine AlbrightAs human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma GandhiIt was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Virginia WoolfI think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.
Taylor SwiftPeople always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.
The WeekndDoing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.
Adam SandlerIt has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham LincolnI’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.
Kevin GatesThere are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.
Tom BradyWe are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFor everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.
Jesus ChristWherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.
Jim MattisOne of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
Wayne DyerReading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.
Kevin GatesIn all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand RussellI’m perpetually lonely.
Lady GagaYou can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale CarnegieThose who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
Bertrand RussellWe all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.
Paul AusterWhen I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
Jane GoodallWhen you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.
Wayne DyerCreate a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.
Robert GreeneI think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.
Michelle ObamaPeople who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
Wayne DyerMy mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.
Alice MunroAlthough the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.
Michelle ObamaI was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.
Brene BrownI think my vice would be outdoing myself.
Kendrick LamarDon’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Thomas JeffersonBut that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George EliotI love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.
Michelle ObamaWe gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.
Taylor SwiftA remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
Will RogersTo this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.
Lady GagaThere is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
Marcus AureliusBe courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George WashingtonSelf-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
Wayne DyerThere are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.
Jocko WillinkI always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.
Beyonce KnowlesI put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van GoghA man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.
Tom BradyI brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
Richard M. Nixon