I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life. — Lazarus of Bethany Copy Share Image
I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own… — Jesse Harris Copy Share Image
The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Tell me, can you see beauty? Can you let it renew your commitment to life, every day? I don't want to wait… — Oriah Dreamer Copy Share Image
Today, I count myself blessed to have become a photographer. To be able to articulate the experiences of the voiceless, to bring… — G.M.B. Akash Copy Share Image
Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I quit because that thing inside of me that was driving me to drink that way was causing me so much pain… — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is really an objective truth about either. I liken this to what Buddhism says about the individual,… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
I think we're skating on surfaces. I know it in my own life - and I think that is where this frustration… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
To know how other people behave takes intelligence, but to know myself takes wisdom. To manage other people's lives takes strength, but… — John Heider Copy Share Image
Darren Hardy has written a new bible for the self-improvement space. If you are looking for the real deal-a real program, with… — David Bach Copy Share Image
Sometimes when something really works well, it becomes a target, forty years for me, I've been a part, and I've loved every… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
You know what needs to be done when you're a writer. You know what the job is, particularly if you're an African… — James McBride Copy Share Image
If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
[Shwing] the really naked stuff I've dealt with in my own life, my own therapy and relationships - for me it just… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I understood…that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history. — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I… — David Macaulay Copy Share Image
I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
There's a competitive fire inside me. I can't get enough. I live to compete daily in my own life. — Mike Holloway Copy Share Image
when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own… — Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Copy Share Image
I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I can be capable of anything if I allow myself to be. I really realized what an obstacle I was being in… — Erin Willett Copy Share Image
I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through. — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to…my own life. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image