No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.
Terry PratchettEvery time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.
Stephen CoveyYou can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham LincolnI don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
Jim CarreyFor some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.
Jim CarreyArthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
Marilyn MonroeThere’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous HuxleyIt is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Lao TzuI’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.
Dolly PartonYou might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.
Conor McGregorWalk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
John RuskinMy view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.
Dwayne JohnsonThe only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.
Salvador DaliSuccess is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
Michelle ObamaNo one can give you better advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George EliotA part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
Brian EnoI’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.
Angelina JolieHe who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin FranklinAction may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William JamesI am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.
Muhammad AliI want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve JobsWho you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
Thich Nhat HanhRemember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
Wayne DyerGreat emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William JamesOne who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Niccolo MachiavelliHomer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
AristotleI’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.
Tom BradyWhen you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
EpictetusI’m not the most patient of people.
Kobe BryantGood character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
HeraclitusMan is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert CamusWhat it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.
Conor McGregorResist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.
Joyce MeyerThere are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.
Joel OsteenIf you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.
Nipsey HussleFace your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
Robert KiyosakiIn our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George OrwellTo be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E. E. CummingsThe spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
Robert Baden-PowellIf you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.
AuroraI can handle pain.
Adam SandlerAn identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
James BaldwinIt makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
Wayne DyerI will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
ConfuciusYou can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve JobsI am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston ChurchillWhat starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Richard M. NixonNo man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham LincolnResponsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.
Noam ChomskyMy public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?
Marilyn MonroeGetting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel JohnsonOur Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.
Russell M. NelsonA fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous HuxleyIn one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.
Adam SandlerI wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.
Joyce MeyerSomewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia Woolf