My Own Quotes - Page 15

• I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Healing, Flames, Mountain

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.94, Penguin

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• For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman.

  Khalil Gibran

  Blessed, Soul, Thieves

  Khalil Gibran (1918). “The Madman”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• I've reached a point where I'm comfortable in my own skin, and I do what I need to do, to feel good, but I'm built the way I am. The dancer's feet, the bruises on my legs, they're not going to go away. I think real girls have bruises. Tough chicks get bruised. They get dirty. And they have fun.

  Nina Dobrev

  Girl, Fun, Real

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts.

  Nic Sheff

  Able, Enough, Loud

  Nic Sheff (2009). “Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

  Robert Purvis

  Insult To Injury, Judging, Soil

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• When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

  Thomas Merton

  Country, Peace, War

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.121, New Directions Publishing

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• I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Husband, Selfish

  "Maya Angelou Opens Women’s Health And Wellness Center, Calls Disparities ‘Embarrassing’" by Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.

  Louise Hay

  Reality, Mind, Negative

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Oct 08, 2016

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• Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which of course I'm not, some part of you is in that character and it's hopefully believable. I always come back to the fact that my own instinct is better than something I build in my mind.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Character, Mind, Pieces

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.

  Khalil

  Eye, Reality, Looks

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• My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Together, Sound

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• Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Humble, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Place of Help: A Book of Devotional Readings”, p.82, Discovery House

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• My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.

  Noam Chomsky

  Atrocities, Violence, Easy

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• We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view, it’s our refusal to deal openly and honestly with race that leads us to keep repeating these cycles of exclusion and division, and rebirthing a caste-like system that we claim we’ve left behind

  Michelle Alexander

  Race, Views, Talking

  "Schools and the New Jim Crow". Interview with Jody Sokolower, truth-out.org. June 04, 2013.

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• Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.

  Rumi

  Destiny, Soul, Shapes

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• Today I will not wait for someone to come to my aid. I'm not helpless. Although help may come, I'm my own rescuer. My relationships will dramatically improve when I stop rescuing others and stop expecting others to rescue me.

  Melody Beattie

  Relationship, Waiting, May

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• Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

  Albert Schweitzer

  Light, Long, Shining

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.40, Ardent Media

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• Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Worry, Anxiety, Physicians

  Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.55, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blood, Hands, Wake Up

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• I was fighting a small fight of my own which wasn't leading
  anywhere-but like a man with a bent spoon trying to dig through a cement wall I knew that a small fight was better than quitting: it
  kept the heart alive.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Heart, Fighting

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• It suddenly hit me—it was nearly impossible to take good care of something I hated. I’d spent so long hating my body that I didn’t know how to respect and nurture myself or my body. By focusing so much on my exterior, I also robbed myself of the opportunity to feel good about myself and my body, simply because I didn't meet a cultural standard of beauty that is obsessed with thinness. That created stress that interfered with my weight loss and with my own happiness.

  Jessica Ortner

  Hate, Stress, Loss

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• The victory is when I realize that I can't do it on my own.

  Nick Vujicic

  Victory, Realizing, I Can

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• Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)

  Terry McMillan

  Writing, Advice, Doe

  FaceBook post by Terry McMillan from May 13, 2010

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• I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

  Michelle Obama

  Speaking My Mind, Average, Color

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• I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Smile, Kids, Autumn

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