My Own Quotes - Page 22

• Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog. He has deep knowledge to impart. He makes friends easily and doesn't hold a grudge. He enjoys simple pleasures and takes each day as it comes. Like a true Zen master he eats when he is hungry and sleeps when he is tired. He's not hung up about sex. Best of all, he befriends me with an unconditional love that human beings would do well to imitate.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Wise, Spiritual, Dog

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• I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

  Douglass North

  Airplane, 1960s, Aeroplanes

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• The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Passion, Rights

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.635, Discovery House

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• I understand the law through the operation of which my own character is developed from my own acts and thoughts; therefore, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.

  Napoleon Hill

  Character, Development, Care

  "Law of Success - Law of Attraction".

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• I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

  Brian Eno

  Creation, Duplicate, Happens

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• My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Verses, Free Verse

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• My own philosophy is that one should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Philosophy, Helping Others, Weather

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• I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.

  Wilkie Collins

  House, Haunting, Spirit

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Wilkie Collins: The Best Short Fiction from the English writer, known for his mystery novels The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, The Moonstone, The Law and The Lady, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife and many more…”, p.650, e-artnow

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• I write to save someone's life, probably my own

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing

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• You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.

  Carly Simon

  Beautiful, Eye, Stranger

  Twitter post from Aug 11, 2016

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• The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Reflection, Thinking, Long

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.2, Discovery House

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• I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

  C. S. Lewis

  "Letters of C. S. Lewis". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 251, 1953.

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• Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Ignorance, Years

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• Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

  Donald Cargill

  Believe, Peace With God, Sin

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• Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Self, Mind

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.118, Bibliolis Books

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• I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Believe, Heart

  "To Have and Have Not". Book by Ernest Hemingway. Chapter 21, 1937.

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• Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Mind, Cold Mountain

  Emily Bronte (1858). “Wuthering Heights”, p.72

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• I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Religious

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Veneration, Conversion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.57, A&C Black

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• Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

  Carly Simon

  Worrying Too Much, People, Ears

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• But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

  James Merrill

  Air, Play, Two

  James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf

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• By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

  Art Garfunkel

  Giving, Way, Giver

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• I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.

  Terry Southern

  Writing, Taste, Care

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• After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mourning, Tragedy, Sin

  1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

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• I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.

  Nelson Mandela

  Nimble, Opinion, Discussion

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.228, Pan Macmillan

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