My Own Quotes - Page 25

• When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Book, Thinking

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.

  Wayne Dyer

  Views, Important, Approval

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• I judge people by their own principles..not by my own

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Judging, Principles

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• I'm trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Beautiful, Trying, Feels

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• Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Self, Hands

  C. S. Lewis (1998). “C. S. Lewis on Joy”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Self, Expression, Coming Back

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• I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own, baby.

  Picabo Street

  Baby, Track, Following

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2012

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• When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

  Jane Austen

  House, Library, Miserable

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc

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  I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

  Frida Kahlo

  Want, Muse, Subjects

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• God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Accomplishment, Christ, Pleasure

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• My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.

  Gladys Taber

  Land, World, Recipes

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• I am in my own mind.
  I am locked in the wrong house.

  Anne Sexton

  House, Mind, Locked

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What does it mean to know and experience my own “nothingness?” It is not enough to turn away in disgust from my illusions and faults and mistakes, to separate myself from them as if they were not, and as if I were someone other than myself. This kind of self-annihilati on is only a worse illusion, it is a pretended humility which, by saying “I am nothing” I mean in effect “I wish I were not what I am.

  Thomas Merton

  Mistake, Mean, Humility

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.49, Macmillan

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• But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Wish, Mood

  Virginia Woolf (1978). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920-1924”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• If we don’t think about God, everything ends up being about 'me' and my own comfort.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Comfort, Ends

  "Pope tells catechists: Put Christ, others, not oneself, on center stage". www.catholicnews.com. September 30, 2013.

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• I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.

  Lydia M. Child

  Light, Way

  Letter to Ellis Gray Loring, 1843.

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• It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.

  Robert Browning

  Clouds, Mad, Earth

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.519, Wordsworth Editions

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• I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me.

  Natalie Merchant

  Travel, Eye, Sight

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• All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you aren't harming others or the Earth, it's your choice when you decide how you want to live your life - Yours and yours alone. Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cake, Ideas, Long

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• I just live life on my own terms. And I smile a lot.

  Tyler Florence

  Smile, Live Life, Term

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• The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.

  Li-Young Lee

  Memories, Problem, Storytelling

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• If I should be so blessed as to revisit again my own country, but more especially Manchester, all that I could hope or desire would be presented before in one view.

  Robert Clive

  Country, Blessed, Views

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• A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made? In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world's greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.

  Bernard Baruch

  Country, Future, Ark

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• For my own part, I believe that in dealing with skeptics, and unbelievers, and enemies of the Bible, Christians are too apt to stand only on the defensive. They are too often content with answering this or that little objection, or discussing this or that little difficulty, which is picked out of Scripture and thrown in their teeth. I believe we ought to act on the aggressive far more than we do, and to press home on the adversaries of [Biblical] inspiration the enormous difficulties of their own position.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Inspiration, Believe

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• For me the breakthrough was the realization that I wasn't the center of the universe or even the centre of my own world. That you and your work, your living, are not the only reason you're here. Your role is to shepherd your children through to adulthood. That's the point of life. Your own little sessions and needs and passions are just there to flavour you and help you do that job for your children.

  Shaun Micallef

  Jobs, Children, Passion

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