When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.
Angelina JolieWe have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
DiogenesThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan PoeThe happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
Brian TracyI enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.
Conor McGregorNone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellI have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.
Cristiano RonaldoO wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
PlatoCustom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund BurkeThe people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.
Kobe BryantIt’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.
David BowieI went through a lot of battles in high school.
LeBron JamesKnowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl JungThere’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous HuxleyBottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve JobsPursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David ThoreauWhen you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.
Brene BrownThe greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SocratesThe simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
Keanu ReevesMany of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.
Thich Nhat HanhI’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.
Dolly PartonWhat’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.
Alice WalkerGenius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.
Wayne DyerI have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz Kafka‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.
DrakeI learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
George Bernard ShawIt’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.
Tom BradyA man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl JungI know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.
Maya AngelouI’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.
Vivienne WestwoodTrials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
Charles SpurgeonYou gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘
Eleanor RooseveltThere are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.
Lando NorrisIt’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.
Joyce MeyerThe best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon BonaparteYou know, most people really don’t know me.
Marilyn MonroeThings that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
Jim RohnI am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
Brian EnoThe only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
Harry S. TrumanYour emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.
Joyce MeyerTo go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
ConfuciusThere is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
James BaldwinI feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
Taylor SwiftI’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.
Gordon RamsayLike all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Jean-Paul SartreI have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.
Alice WalkerWhen I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.
Bad BunnyI’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.
Joel OsteenI am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.
Mr. TI got my own back.
Maya AngelouEvery man’s memory is his private literature.
Aldous HuxleyThen suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.
Ayrton SennaPeople will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.
DJ KhaledI am happy and I’m single.
RihannaCalm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.
Dalai LamaWhen you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.
John C. MaxwellAll travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel Johnson