I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
~By Jane Fonda ~
I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.
~By Taylor Dane ~
I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.
~By Kristen Stewart ~
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
~By Ramakrishna ~
Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.
~By Josh Hartnett ~
Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.
~By Bobby Locke ~
Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.
~By Nomar Garciaparra ~
That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
~By Bill Wyman ~
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
~By Hesiod ~
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
~By L. Wolfe Gilbert ~
In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!
~By Johannes Tauler ~
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
~By Peter De Vries ~
I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.
~By Shia LaBeouf ~
If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
~By Ralph A. Cram ~
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.
~By Janet Suzman ~
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.
~By Mark Strong ~
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
~By Brian Eno ~
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
~By Brian Tracy ~
Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
~By Malcolm X ~
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
~By Larry Wall ~
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.
~By Joan Allen ~
She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.
~By Anne Tyler ~
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.
~By Michelle Pfeiffer ~
I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who I am and what I've become, the morals I have, and the people that I'm surrounded by.
~By Tina Yothers ~
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
~By Claudius ~
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
~By Len Wein ~
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
~By Nicholas Mosley ~
I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it.
~By Carrie Underwood ~
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
~By Ernst Mach ~
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
~By Albert Camus ~
I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.
~By John Sexton ~
I've spent my life supporting myself.
~By Ann Beattie ~
Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.
~By Greg Lake ~
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
~By Sally Field ~
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
~By George Sand ~
I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.
~By Stephen Lewis ~
I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.
~By Mariah Carey ~
I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
~By Buddha ~
Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
~By Alton Brown ~
Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody.
~By Jeff Garcia ~
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
~By Erno Rubik ~
I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.
~By Dean Koontz ~
When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.
~By Claire Danes ~
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
~By Epictetus ~
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.
~By Harold Ford ~
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
The principal cause of war is war itself.
~By C. Wright Mills ~
Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.
~By Matt Groening ~
O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!
~By Joseph Banks ~
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
~By Norman Douglas ~
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
~By Francis Thompson ~
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
~By David Ogilvy ~
I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
~By G. Gordon Liddy ~
I'm working myself to death.
~By Alan Ladd ~
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
~By Robert Redford ~
But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.
~By Donald Cargill ~
Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us.
~By Steve Buyer ~
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
~By S. I. Hayakawa ~
The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
~By Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
~By Diane Arbus ~
I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.
~By Andres Serrano ~
One should make morals judgements for oneself.
~By Kathryn Bigelow ~
I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead.
~By Brian Koslow ~
I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.
~By Alan Ladd ~
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
~By Thomas Merton ~
I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.
~By Bootsy Collins ~
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.
~By Linda Blair ~
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.
~By Donald Cargill ~
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
~By Federico Fellini ~
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.
~By Jon Secada ~
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
~By Jacques-Henri Lartigue ~
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
~By Rabbi Hillel ~
Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.
~By Alain Robert ~
It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.
~By Lynn Davies ~
I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
~By Elizabeth Berkley ~
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