My Own Quotes - Page 14

• I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

  Shan Sa

  Heart, Play, Desire

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• My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen—especially since God’s power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit … glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Keys, Self, Wish

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.49, David C Cook

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• There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Thinking, Weakness, Done

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• Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream.

  Ruskin Bond

  Dream, Garden, Mind

  Ruskin Bond, Ruskin (2008). “Ruskin Bond's Book of Nature”, p.34, Penguin Books India

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• To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

  Ruskin Bond

  Hands, Tree, Return

  Ruskin Bond (2003). “Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas”, p.134, Penguin Books India

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• The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning, only beginning, to know it. If clinging to His goodness is the highest form of prayer, then this seeing His goodness with a pen, with a shutter, with a word of thanks, these really are the most sacred acts conceivable. The ones anyone can conceive, anywhere, in the midst of anything. Eucharisteo takes us into His love.

  Ann Voskamp

  Prayer, Thinking, Soul

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• With relationships, I always had a reason why some time in the future would be better for me than it was that day. When I was fat, I thought I'd feel pretty when I was thin, and when I was thin, I thought I'd be happier if I was more toned and muscular and had more money to look more coordinated. I wasn't comfortable in my own skin unless there was a man there to tell me just how radiant that skin looked. I was a victim of low self-esteem and had the Soon syndrome bad. I was running toward a brighter future, unaware of the mirages I'd created in the distance.

  Stephanie Klein

  Running, Self Esteem, Distance

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• No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Reading, Enough, Given

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• I knew one hundred little things about Noah Shaw but when he kissed me I couldn't remember my own name.

  Michelle Hodkin

  Names, Littles, Remember

  Michelle Hodkin (2013). “The Evolution of Mara Dyer”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• And finally, I just felt it was crucial for some of us in the hip hop community to speak up on the issues of teen suicide, bullying, and the overall anti-homosexual sentiment that exist within hip hop culture. I felt so strongly about these issues and this song that I had to do a video that would command some attention, even if it makes some viewers uncomfortable.

  MURS

  Suicide, Song, Bullying

  "Murs’ ‘Animal Style’ Video: Rapper Supports Gay Rights, Kisses A Man In New Clip" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2012.

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• No matter how hard it gets, I’d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss

  Chino XL

  Blood, Soldier, Coward

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• As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

  Jim Hodges

  Strong, Emotional, Reactions

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• I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

  Adele Faber

  Children, Parent, Experts

  Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish (2012). “How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk”, p.11, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I’ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I’ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Ignorance, Complicated World, Velocity

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• Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now

  Tim Tharp

  Goodbye, Littles, Disappear

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.230, Scholastic UK

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• The one close to me now; even my own body--these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions.

  Izumi Shikibu

  Clouds, Different, Floating

  no Komachi Ono, Izumi Shikibu (2015). “The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi anmd Izumi Shikibu, Women of teh Ancient Court of Japan”, p.147, Vintage

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• What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

  Frank Sinatra

  Way, Life Is, I Can

  Interview with Walter Cronkite, 1965, as quoted in "Just A Couple Of Legends", CBS News, www.cbsnews.com. May 20, 1998.

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• In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Discovery, Philadelphia, Atheism

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• Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Meditation, Height

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• There is something very healthy about finding support from others during difficult times. I needed it for my own healing.

  Beth Moore

  Healing, Support, Healthy

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• Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

  Muddy Waters

  Men, Voice, Afternoon

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• Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Given, Circumstances, Turns

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.341, Faber & Faber

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• I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Doubt, Evidence Of God, Instance

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

  John Singer Sargent

  Eye, Beneath The Surface, Surface

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• I think every year I become happier because I become more comfident and more comfortable in my own skin.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Years, Skins

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