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Own Quotes by D. H. Lawrence
- The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird…
- I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and…
- ... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old…
- I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and…
- The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet…
- The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I…
- Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own…
- Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no…
- Let a person only approach his or her own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within…
- Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart…
- The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
- It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem…
- It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times,…
- Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
- Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the…
- I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not…
- Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they…
- Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and…
- Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
- He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it…
- The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of…
- Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own loveless ness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov