My Own Quotes - Page 18

• Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Given, Circumstances, Turns

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.341, Faber & Faber

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• I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Doubt, Evidence Of God, Instance

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Healing, Flames, Mountain

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.94, Penguin

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• For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman.

  Khalil Gibran

  Blessed, Soul, Thieves

  Khalil Gibran (1918). “The Madman”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts.

  Nic Sheff

  Able, Enough, Loud

  Nic Sheff (2009). “Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

  Robert Purvis

  Insult To Injury, Judging, Soil

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• I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.

  Khalil

  Eye, Reality, Looks

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• My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Together, Sound

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• My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.

  Noam Chomsky

  Atrocities, Violence, Easy

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• We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view, it’s our refusal to deal openly and honestly with race that leads us to keep repeating these cycles of exclusion and division, and rebirthing a caste-like system that we claim we’ve left behind

  Michelle Alexander

  Race, Views, Talking

  "Schools and the New Jim Crow". Interview with Jody Sokolower, truth-out.org. June 04, 2013.

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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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• Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Worry, Anxiety, Physicians

  Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.55, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• I was fighting a small fight of my own which wasn't leading
  anywhere-but like a man with a bent spoon trying to dig through a cement wall I knew that a small fight was better than quitting: it
  kept the heart alive.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Heart, Fighting

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• It suddenly hit me—it was nearly impossible to take good care of something I hated. I’d spent so long hating my body that I didn’t know how to respect and nurture myself or my body. By focusing so much on my exterior, I also robbed myself of the opportunity to feel good about myself and my body, simply because I didn't meet a cultural standard of beauty that is obsessed with thinness. That created stress that interfered with my weight loss and with my own happiness.

  Jessica Ortner

  Hate, Stress, Loss

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• I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Smile, Kids, Autumn

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• Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Struggle, Pieces, One Piece

  "The Struggle to Overcome Depression" by Susan Polis Schutz, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2010.

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• You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.'

  Carol Bellamy

  Morning, Stupid, Boys

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• As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

  Rick Steves

  Humanity, Essentials, Culture

  Rick Steves (2014). “Rick Steves Travel as a Political Act”, p.302, Avalon Travel

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• My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Girl, Sex, Philosophy

  "Cosmopolitan's Helen Gurley Brown Dies at 90", www.cnbc.com. August 13, 2012.

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• I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend it. I can write a complete sentence and punctuate it correctly. If I need help, I can call on judges, attorneys, educators, ministers. I wonder what I would be like if I had grown up without such protections and supports. What cracks would have turned up in my character?

  Helen Prejean

  Book, Writing, Character

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• After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.

  Suzy Bogguss

  I Realized

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• I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Attitude, Ambition, Self

  Leroy Neiman (2013). “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs”, p.121, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.

  David Richo

  Believe, Reality, Ideas

  David Richo (2011). “Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me.

  Heather King

  Home, Night, Ideas

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• I wish I hated my own sin as much as I hate everyone else's.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Hate, Wish, Sin

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