Believe Quote by George Eliot

“He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.”

— Confucius

“He realized this early on, and realized too that what people think are their lives are merely its conditions. The truth is closer than…

— Simon Van Booy

“Man is whoever he thinks he is, within his own boundaries.”

— Dudley Davidson-Jarrett

“Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives of men…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“I also know that a man, by the way he lives his life, can quickly invalidate whatever arguments or advice he presents to others…

— John Bunyan

“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“He was perpetually on guard against the ways that abstract thinking (especially thinking about your own thinking) can draw you away from something more…

— James Ryerson

“III. I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men's opinions concerning…

— Marcus Aurelius

“spend not thy time in thinking, what such a man doth, and to what end: what he saith, and what he thinks, and what…

— Marcus Aurelius

“He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish…

— Gregory Maguire

“In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.”

— Tim Willocks