I owe my solitude to other people.
Alan WattsThe more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.
Robert KiyosakiSome people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
David HareI wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.
Henry David ThoreauYou must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaYou have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo CoelhoI think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
Jim CarreyEducation must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Noam ChomskySometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.
Joyce MeyerI have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.
Ray BradburyI 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.
EminemThey would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.
Robert FrostWhen people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark TwainRemorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIn my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
Fidel CastroI’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.
Jackie ChanYour time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve JobsAt one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.
Vivienne WestwoodThere are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Mark TwainThe important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert EinsteinIt is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl SaganI find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
Oscar WildeLook at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
ConfuciusThe future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.
Barack ObamaI have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.
Dolly PartonWeakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert EinsteinI think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
Mahatma GandhiAn alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.
Dylan ThomasIf you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.
Robert KiyosakiBecause you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
BonoNever do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
Amelia EarhartIt is never too late to be what you might have been.
George EliotA man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel JohnsonI can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.
Dolly PartonAs your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
Taylor SwiftEvery man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHe who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
ConfuciusThe person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale CarnegiePerhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston ChurchillHealth is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao TzuMy weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.
Dolly PartonI made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.
Abby Lee MillerNarrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
Eckhart TolleHas this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. LewisI grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.
Nipsey HussleAs a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.
Robert KiyosakiWhat’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
Marilyn MonroeI give opinions, not advice.
Lou HoltzIt’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest HemingwayI write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
Amy WinehouseI’m addicted to placebos.
Steven WrightWithout discipline, there’s no life at all.
Katharine HepburnYou can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve JobsI need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.
Steven WrightI think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.
Nipsey HussleDon’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco ChanelLet us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
Ronald ReaganWork out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
BuddhaFrom the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.
Conor McGregorI was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.
Dave Grohl