My Own Quotes - Page 17

• As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Dream, Kids

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• All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

  Plato

  Ignorance, Knows

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• I can be someone's and still be my own.

  Shel Silverstein

  Stills, I Can

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• Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Stronger, Needs, Company

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• The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

  Herman Wouk

  Doors, Library, Found

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• I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

  Vera Wang

  Disappointment, Successful, Mind

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• Experience is stronger than belief. Once we have experiences our mind begins to open. This works better than me forcing my own experience or knowledge onto anyone. Show them how to have their own experiences.

  Brian Weiss

  Mind, Stronger, Belief

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• The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

  Neko Case

  Heart, Blood, Stranger

  Song: Hold On, Hold On, Album: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, 2006

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• I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Self, Fishing, Monsters

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• I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can.

  Lily Cole

  Integrity, Believe, Thinking

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

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• I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Suffering, Habit

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• The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Book, Ideas, Stories

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• There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Pain, Husband, Childhood

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• The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Mind, Existential

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• I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Power, Who I Am, Watches

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.

  Laozi

  Medicine, Mind, Taoism

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Believe, Forgive Me, Sloth

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• Ask yourself: Does this appearance (of events) concern the things that are within my own control or those that are not? If it concerns anything outside your control, train yourself not to worry about it.

  Epictetus

  Life, Worry, Events

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• Sometimes it is really hard to sit in the single and go for a row. I think this is really normal. I, like probably a lot of people, burn out every once in a while. What I have learned from my own experience is that there are two reasons for it to happen. It is that I am either physically tired or mentally tired. If either of these are the case, the wisest decision is to blow off practice. Blowing off practice is healthy. I didn't understand that until I was so burnt out that I wanted to make scrap material out of my single and my oars.

  Xeno Muller

  Tired, Blow, Thinking

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• I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

  Anne Rice

  Moving, Character, Inspire

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• I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.

  Christopher Nolan

  Done, Way, Satisfaction

  "He's not a god - he's human". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.

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• I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

  Craig Ferguson

  Thinking, Satisfaction

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• I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

  Bruce Lee

  Warrior, Light, Medicine

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.348, Tuttle Publishing

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• Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Friendship, Wise, Spiritual

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• Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!

  Al Gore

  Stupid, Humorous, Hands

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