Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don’t know the value of your own soul, it’s all foolishness.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One’s own karma, one’s own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
I’m not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.
Each day provides its own gifts.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Every one has her own love life. Every one has a dream to get a perfect life partner. But this is not so easy in real life. In fact, one doesn’t love; it happens.
To save your own hair, wigs are literally the way forward.
Each day provides its own gifts.
A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other’s culture without compromising its own.
When I was young we weren’t even allowed to speak our own languages in school. They called it ‘vernacular,’ as if only English was the real tongue.
There’s no path to success. Everyone constructs their own path. The important thing is to follow your heart. Find your niche, is my best advice.
The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say ‘him’ rather than ‘her.’ Maybe it’s because of my generation, but I don’t like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin’s; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Every man is his own hell.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
I have my own political views and ideologies, but will not enter politics for sure.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it’s all manufactured.
We’re always going to argue about abortion. It’s a hard choice and it’s controversial, and that’s why I’m pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.
Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
It’s either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain’t gonna get too far ’cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don’t believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
You must have anger, as rightful wrath is what makes you create your own ethical standards.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
