Best Own Life Thoughts
949 Own Life quotes by 743 unique authors
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What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.
— John Bradshaw
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Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.
— Luce Irigaray
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Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own…
— Jack Kornfield
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Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look at your own…
— Thomas Merton
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What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share…
— Thomas Merton
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Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its products, its creatures,…
— William O. Douglas
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I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon…
— Steven Morrissey
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I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life
— Armistead Maupin
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Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.
— Laurie Helgoe
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Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his…
— Nhat Hanh
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Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.
— Stefanie Schneider
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I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
— Eugene H. Peterson
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The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had…
— Sebastian Faulks
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Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the…
— Roger Cohen
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A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over…
— Peter Thiel
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Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to…
— Christopher Penczak
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I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make…
— Otto Hahn
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Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite…
— Parker J. Palmer
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A man is never too weak or too wounded to fight. If his cause is greater than his own life.
— Unknown Author
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What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it…
— Walker Percy
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The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end…
— Edith Stein
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I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.
— James Branch Cabell
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