I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.
Tom BradyYou know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
James BaldwinWhen a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
James BaldwinI’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.
Kevin GatesIt 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 thought I would be a guy on the radio.
Steven WrightBut your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
Hermann HesseMy biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.
Ayrton SennaThe people in my songs are all me.
Bob DylanWorry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin DisraeliDo not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
Andrew CarnegieRelish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.
Anthony HopkinsI’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.
John LennonIt is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
Virginia WoolfYes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.
Karl LagerfeldPeople who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
Wayne DyerAmericans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.
Ray BradburyThe primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
James BaldwinA man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
Oscar WildeAppearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute.
Dalai LamaThe first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur SchopenhauerYour vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl JungAll human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise PascalKnow thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
ConfuciusWhen you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.
Brene BrownToday I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
Friedrich NietzscheWhen you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.
Thich Nhat HanhI’m not a bad person.
Abby Lee MillerIf you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
Jim CarreyWhat most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
VoltaireWe’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.
Kendrick LamarMere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.
Haruki MurakamiI think I have always had a little humor.
Marilyn MonroeI like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.
Taylor SwiftI have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.
Kevin GatesMedicines are only fit for old people.
Napoleon BonaparteWhen you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.
Dolly PartonAll through my writing life, I’ve had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
Paul AusterI guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
Benjamin FranklinYou’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.
Joel OsteenI have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
Billy GrahamPride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.
Joyce MeyerNaturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.
Clint EastwoodFaith never makes a confession.
Henry David ThoreauI can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.
Paul AusterI spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
Taylor SwiftAll diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.
Karl LagerfeldWhen I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I’ve had a lot of physical problems.
Billy GrahamWe are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?
Brene BrownThe older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.
Billy GrahamAs for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.
Noam ChomskyDo not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
EpicurusA noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Marcus AureliusI owe my solitude to other people.
Alan WattsWhen I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.
Kevin HartWhat you are comes to you.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMost of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
Madeleine Albright