I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
Kurt VonnegutIf you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EpictetusHow many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco ChanelI don’t do research. I never have.
Ray BradburyAll men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise PascalWhere does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.
John SteinbeckThere’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
Hermann HesseYou must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Alexander PopeBy indignities men come to dignities.
Francis BaconTo understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Khalil GibranI always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.
Kendrick LamarCourage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Joseph AddisonHaving a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.
Wayne DyerEvery man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin LutherStrive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert EinsteinI want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.
Joel OsteenIn so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
Maya AngelouFor me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
Madeleine AlbrightI was in a terrible mess in my childhood.
Joyce MeyerYou can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWhen thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.
Marcus AureliusThought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
Aldous HuxleyNot what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
Thomas CarlyleI’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.
Vivienne WestwoodIf you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNot to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Alexander PopeThe line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert HubbardYou have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Eleanor RooseveltIf selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!
Joyce MeyerI approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.
Taylor SwiftI’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.
Brene BrownI 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 ObamaI want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.
Dwayne JohnsonI had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
Maya AngelouNow, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
Matthew McConaugheyAlways fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.
Robert FrostNot until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David ThoreauSometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what’s going to happen in my life.
David ByrneWithin all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
Wayne DyerAchievement brings its own anticlimax.
Maya AngelouEverything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.
Kevin HartPerhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston ChurchillWhen you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
Jordan PetersonAs iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
King SolomonI really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.
Bob DylanI feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.
Angelina JolieIf you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
Ray BradburyWill not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George EliotI can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.
Taylor SwiftExcellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George EliotThe left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.
Conor McGregorYou cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
Stephen KingTo be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Martin LutherI think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
Dave GrohlWe all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.
Dale CarnegieI’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.
Taylor SwiftRemember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor RooseveltIf a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin