People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Your 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.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

I 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.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.