My Own Quotes - Page 28

• As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

  Jim Hodges

  Strong, Emotional, Reactions

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• I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

  Adele Faber

  Children, Parent, Experts

  Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish (2012). “How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk”, p.11, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now

  Tim Tharp

  Goodbye, Littles, Disappear

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.230, Scholastic UK

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• The one close to me now; even my own body--these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions.

  Izumi Shikibu

  Clouds, Different, Floating

  no Komachi Ono, Izumi Shikibu (2015). “The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi anmd Izumi Shikibu, Women of teh Ancient Court of Japan”, p.147, Vintage

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• There is something very healthy about finding support from others during difficult times. I needed it for my own healing.

  Beth Moore

  Healing, Support, Healthy

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• Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

  Muddy Waters

  Men, Voice, Afternoon

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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 don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

  John Singer Sargent

  Eye, Beneath The Surface, Surface

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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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• I've reached a point where I'm comfortable in my own skin, and I do what I need to do, to feel good, but I'm built the way I am. The dancer's feet, the bruises on my legs, they're not going to go away. I think real girls have bruises. Tough chicks get bruised. They get dirty. And they have fun.

  Nina Dobrev

  Girl, Fun, Real

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

  Thomas Merton

  Country, Peace, War

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.121, New Directions Publishing

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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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• Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Humble, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Place of Help: A Book of Devotional Readings”, p.82, Discovery House

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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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• Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.

  Rumi

  Destiny, Soul, Shapes

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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 once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blood, Hands, Wake Up

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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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• The victory is when I realize that I can't do it on my own.

  Nick Vujicic

  Victory, Realizing, I Can

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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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• There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.

  Diana Nyad

  Two, Knowing, Water

  FaceBook post by Diana Nyad from Jan 14, 2014

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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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• We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

  Michael Dell

  Leader, Growth, Again And Again

  "6 Surefire Ways to Stay Constantly Motivated" by Jonathan Long, www.entrepreneur.com. June 27, 2016.

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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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