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Own Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of…
- In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will…
- The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life…
- Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense…
- It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of…
- Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
- Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
- Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something…
- To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even…
- Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies,…
- You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- 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