My Own Quotes - Page 16

• Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Struggle, Pieces, One Piece

  "The Struggle to Overcome Depression" by Susan Polis Schutz, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2010.

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• There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.

  Diana Nyad

  Two, Knowing, Water

  FaceBook post by Diana Nyad from Jan 14, 2014

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• You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.'

  Carol Bellamy

  Morning, Stupid, Boys

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• As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

  Rick Steves

  Humanity, Essentials, Culture

  Rick Steves (2014). “Rick Steves Travel as a Political Act”, p.302, Avalon Travel

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• We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

  Michael Dell

  Leader, Growth, Again And Again

  "6 Surefire Ways to Stay Constantly Motivated" by Jonathan Long, www.entrepreneur.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.

  Koren Zailckas

  Writing, Ideas, Cracks

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• My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Girl, Sex, Philosophy

  "Cosmopolitan's Helen Gurley Brown Dies at 90", www.cnbc.com. August 13, 2012.

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• I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend it. I can write a complete sentence and punctuate it correctly. If I need help, I can call on judges, attorneys, educators, ministers. I wonder what I would be like if I had grown up without such protections and supports. What cracks would have turned up in my character?

  Helen Prejean

  Book, Writing, Character

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• If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Clients, Lawyer, Ifs

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• After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.

  Suzy Bogguss

  I Realized

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• I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Attitude, Ambition, Self

  Leroy Neiman (2013). “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs”, p.121, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When I started out, Jiu-Jitsu was really an elite thing in Brazil, and there was some prejudice towards poorer kids, so I had to learn things on my own. Some of my neighbours started doing Jiu-Jitsu, so I started watching it, and then started rolling with them. It wasn’t organized training, but it was better than nothing.

  Anderson Silva

  Kids, Training, Rolling

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• My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

  Jamais Cascio

  Mind, Tools, Stand Alone

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• I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own.

  Hugo Ball

  People, Stuff, Matching

  Hugo Ball (1974). “Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary”, p.221, Univ of California Press

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• For I have not seen another shrine blissful like my own body.

  Saraha

  Body, Shrines

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• Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists in that infinite, nonphysical plane. My only task is to expand my earthly self enough to let it into this realm. So if there's something I desire, the idea isn't to go out and get it, but to expand my own consciousness to allow universal energy to bring it into my reality here.

  Anita Moorjani

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

  Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.161, Hay House, Inc

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• Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Importantly, this is in the service of being able to choose wisely so that I avoid complicating my own life and the lives of others.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Mindfulness, Able, Moments

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• The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.

  David Richo

  Believe, Reality, Ideas

  David Richo (2011). “Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me.

  Heather King

  Home, Night, Ideas

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• For me words still possess their primitive, mystical, incantatory powers. I am inclined to use them as part of an attempt to make my own reality more real for others, as part of an effort to transcend emotional danger. For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Real, Emotional, Effort

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• I wish I hated my own sin as much as I hate everyone else's.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Hate, Wish, Sin

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• I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.

  Cammie McGovern

  Helping Someone, Might, Take Me

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• According
  to my own experience, the highest level of inner calm comes from the
  development of love and compassion. The more concerned we are with the
  happiness of others, the more we increase our own well-being.
  Friendliness and warmth towards others allow us to relax and help us to
  dispel any sense of fear or insecurity so we can overcome whatever
  obstacles we face.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Compassion, Insecurity

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• I was minding my own business, really, and then all of a sudden, Hollywood approached me.

  Kelly Brook

  Hollywood, Minding My Own Business, Own Business

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• I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know I couldn't be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn't come through, I am screwed.

  Francis Chan

  People, Looks, Want

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.234, David C Cook

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