Own Quotes

I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

All I can go on is my own value system.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.

We are the hero of our own story.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don't adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.