My Own Life Quotes - Page 5

• It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

  Ernie Banks

  Philosophy, Energy, Never Quit

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• The letter from Dan Gilbert, the booing of the Cleveland fans, the jerseys being burned -- seeing all that was hard for them. My emotions were more mixed. It was easy to say, 'OK, I don't want to deal with these people ever again.' But then you think about the other side. What if I were a kid who looked up to an athlete, and that athlete made me want to do better in my own life, and then he left? How would I react? I've met with Dan, face-to-face, man-to-man. We've talked it out. Everybody makes mistakes. I've made mistakes as well. Who am I to hold a grudge?

  LeBron James

  Mistake, Athlete, Kids

  "LeBron James leaves Miami Heat to rejoin Cleveland Cavaliers" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m creating my own life. I distrust any memories I do have. They may be fictions, too.

  Sally Mann

  Children, Memories, Thinking

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• I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.

  Britney Spears

  Inspirational, Dance, Kids

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• Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.

  Matthew Sweet

  Success, Girlfriend, Fun

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• During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. Not one instructor ever awoke in me a desire to learn more or to question or to explore the worlds of literature, science, and history. All they did was try to rob me of the sense of my own uniqueness and worth, and in the process nearly killed my urge to inquire.

  Huey Newton

  Teacher, School, Years

  "Revolutionary Suicide". Book by Huey P. Newton, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1973.

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• I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

  Armistead Maupin

  Pieces, My Own, Bits

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• Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Character, Deep Thought, World

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• I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Eugene H. Peterson (2006). “God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Believe, Fighting, Simple

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• Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions…..Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live-but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Real, Heart, Who I Am

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.13, John Wiley & Sons

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• I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

  James Branch Cabell

  Literature, Feels, My Own

  James Branch Cabell (2005). “Beyond Life”, p.345, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I resolve to be more patient, less selfish, cherish my friends, and in my small way help whoever needs help. I cannot conceivably influence the world's destiny, but I can make my own life more worthwhile. I can give some help to some people; that is not vital to all the world's problems and yet, I think if everyone did just that, we might see quite a world in our time!

  Gladys Taber

  Selfish, Destiny, Thinking

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• I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.

  F. Sionil José

  Writing, Ignorance, Apathy

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• I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.

  Joseph Epstein

  Book, People, Soul

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• It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life.

  Ralph Maxwell

  Art, Junk, Disease

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• In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

  Neal Barnard

  School, Eggs, Meat

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• Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I grow older that faith is becoming stronger and stronger. He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Atheist, Believe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

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• As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.

  Mark Batterson

  Opportunity, Simple, Play

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.9, Multnomah

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• Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

  Antonin Artaud

  Tragedy, Enough, Stage

  "Memories For Tomorrow". Book by Jean-Louis Barrault, 1974.

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• 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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• There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice, the power of choice that accompanies taking responsibility. Abdicating responsibility to an outside source can seem, at least for the moment, so much easier. Once you know better, however, you can't get away with kidding yourself for long.

  Caroline Myss

  Responsibility, Long, Choices

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.257, Harmony

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• As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

  Steve Schirripa

  Hollywood, Scene, My Own

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• I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some eras that I wish I'd lived in, like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.

  Gemma Arterton

  Party, Wish, London

  "Gemma Arterton Falls for The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" by Jami Philbrick, movieweb.com. May 15, 2010.

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• Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

  Albert Schweitzer

  Light, Long, Shining

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.40, Ardent Media

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