To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Virginia WoolfI always wanted a family.
Kevin GatesI’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.
Brene BrownThe world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William JamesOne travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
Thomas JeffersonI want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.
EminemOur plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.
Dylan ThomasThe greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Alexander PopeI don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.
Sunil ChhetriGrowing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
Billy GrahamIf knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac AsimovIt is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George WashingtonThe question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
Jean-Paul SartreI didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.
Vivienne WestwoodIt is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai LamaThere is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
Thich Nhat HanhBeing a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
Abraham MaslowYou can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.
Joel OsteenI am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.
RihannaThat is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
Eckhart TolleI’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘
Alice MunroKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George EliotAll the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George EliotPeople have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.
Alice WalkerA child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous HuxleyTrue wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
Kevin GatesAchievement brings its own anticlimax.
Maya AngelouChildhood is the sleep of reason.
Jean-Jacques RousseauNo one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.
Jordan PetersonI am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
Lady GagaThe reward of suffering is experience.
Harry S. TrumanOne of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.
Brene BrownThe chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel JohnsonI don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.
Angelina JolieI created myself. I have taught myself so much.
Maya AngelouThere’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.
Eckhart TolleLive out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen CoveyWhat I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.
Paulo CoelhoBeware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
Charles SpurgeonLet us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
Richard M. NixonReject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus AureliusIt is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.
Thich Nhat HanhI think my vice would be outdoing myself.
Kendrick LamarI will praise any man that will praise me.
William ShakespeareWe cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Galileo GalileiTimidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘
Maya AngelouNo change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFocusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack ObamaNothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.
Terry PratchettNothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus AureliusIt’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.
Richard M. NixonIt is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.
Henry AdamsDoubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.
Thich Nhat HanhWhen I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.
Mr. TWe have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.
Alice WalkerI mean… in life… what relationship is easy?
The WeekndI wish they would only take me as I am.
Vincent Van GoghCultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero