Quotes by Authors - Page 61

God why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh lead me to the Beyond within.
Macrina Wiederkehr
I've never met a person I don't care what his condition in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure I believe in him for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
Preston Bradley
No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being ... must come from within.
R. W. Clark
The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without.
Samuel Butler
If you can't change your fate change your attitude.
Amy Tan
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
As far as beauty is concerned in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
Sophia Loren
My future is one I must make myself.
Louis L'Amour
Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.
Simone de Beauvoir
The best things in life must come by effort from within not by gifts from the outside.
Fred Corson
No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston
We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.
Sir Thomas Browne
If it is to be it is up to me.
Anonymous
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
Diane Ackerman
Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
Thomas Fuller
I love being single. It's almost like being rich.
Sue Grafton
There is no such thing as vicarious experience.
Mary Parker Follett
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
Sally Field
The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours.
Jules Jusserano
It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Betty Friedan
Women share with men the need for personal success even the taste for power and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates whether husbands children or merely role models.
Elizabeth Dole
No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara De Angelis
We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Barbara De Angelis
A secure individual... knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.
Harry Browne
The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life whether the case be one of coolish baked beans or an unrequited affection.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan but to have any meaning or viability at all a life plan must include intimate relationships.
Harriet Lerner
Do for yourself or do without.
Gaylord Perry
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The best bet is to bet on yourself.
Arnold Glasow
Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.
Jane Fonda
To be born free is an accident to live free a responsibility to die free is an obligation.
Mrs. Hubbard Davis
We are free up to the point of choice then the choice controls the chooser.
Mary Crowley
What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility place it in our hands and carry it with dignity and strength.
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua
I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me if I fail to make my own choices the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.
Liv Ullmann
I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The wise don't expect to find life worth living they make it that way.
Anonymous
The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune.
Amelia Earhart
Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.
Sydney Smith
If you believe then you hang on. If you believe it means you've got imagination you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today I'll come in tomorrow.
Ruth Gordon
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.
Margaret Drabble
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
Shirley Hazzard
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot
Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D.H. Lawrence
Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.
Barbara Gordon
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.
Thomas Morton
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
André Gide
I'm not overweight I'm just nine inches too short.
Shelley Winters
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Anonymous
Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
Elizabeth Elliot
I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor.
D.H. Lawrence
This life is not for complaint but for satisfaction.
Henry David Thoreau
The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
Og Guinness
Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.
John W. Raper
Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision.
Anonymous
Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.
Stephen King
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
Lady Bird Johnson
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller