My Own Quotes - Page 24

• And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Flower, Book, Ties

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

  Oprah Winfrey

  Purpose, Praying, Used

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• There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Done, Pieces

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 18, 2013.

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• As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

  Jamie Ford

  Heart, Break, Bases

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• Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back
  I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats

  Tupac Shakur

  Dirty, Rats, Facts

  Song: Only God Can Judge Me, Album: All Eyez on Me, 1996

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• Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.

  Martin Luther

  Use, Wrecks, Lord

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• What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is all for this body that I put my hand voluntarily upon my fellow human beings, just to keep it nice and give it a little pleasure. It is all for the body that I injure others and make mistakes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mistake, Nice, Hands

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• Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mind, Mastery, Facts

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Book, Has Beens

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• I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Heart, People, Joy

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.95, Pan Macmillan

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• Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Forget, States, Carrie

  "The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 121, September 26, 1985.

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• Whether your life is happy or not is your own choice.
  
  Many people think I can't live a normal life because
  I don't have arms or legs.
  I could choose to believe that and give up trying.
  I could stay at home and wait for others to take care of me.
  Instead, I choose to believe that I can do anything,
  and I always try to do things my own way.
  I choose to be happy.
  I am happy because I am always thankful.

  Nick Vujicic

  Giving Up, Believe, Home

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• I don't like recording studios - except my own,
  which is just a little room above the garage.

  Keith Jarrett

  Littles, Rooms, Garage

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• My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Party, Decision, Life Is

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• Be a follower of JESUS CHRIST--I am not seeking followers of my own. Don't be a follower of a MAN--but of CHRIST!

  Herbert W. Armstrong

  Jesus, Men, Followers

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• In the face of the oppressed I recognize my own face, and in the hands of the oppressor I recognize my own hands. Their flesh is my flesh, their blood is my blood, their pain is my pain, their smile is my smile.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Blood, Hands

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• I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.

  Debby Ryan

  Needs, Introverted

  "Disney Channel Star Debby Ryan Knows What Kids Want". Interview with Lonnie Firestone, www.backstage.com. October 8, 2012.

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• To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

  Pablo Picasso

  Ideas, Drawing, Pages

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• I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I can't always feel comfortable with when I'm living my own life, you know? Because it's make-believe.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Believe, Acting, Feels

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

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• Today I will realize that I'm powerless over other people's expectations of me. I'll think about what I want and consider that how I respond to others' needs will affect the course of my life. I will own my own power and choose the course that's right for me.

  Melody Beattie

  Thinking, People, Expectations

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• I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.

  Billy Graham

  Compassion, Suffering, Tragedy

  Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Delivered 14 September, National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Washington D.C.

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• The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

  Alison Bechdel

  Creativity, Wish, Looks

  Alison Bechdel (2012). “Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Heart, Men

  FaceBook post by Barack Obama from Aug 25, 2012

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• I give a portion of my time to helping others. It is good for my own health.

  Louise Hay

  Helping Others, Giving, Portions

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Mar 29, 2015

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• One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing

  Brian Eno

  Wine, Night, Python

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