1,328 quotes found
“Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.”
“As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.”
“Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education...”
“You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside but you cannot need for it to come from outside.”
“Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.”
“The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.”
“I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content.”
“No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.”
“Blessed is he who expects no gratitude for he shall not be disappointed.”
“Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.”
“If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me I've got to get out.”
“To make the choice for independent survival the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.”
“I care not what others think of what I do but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!”
“Life I fancy would very often be insupportable but for the luxury of self-compassion.”
“Of all afflictions the worst is self-contempt.”
“If you must love your neighbor as yourself it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.”
“I... know what I do and am unmoved by men's blame or their praise either.”
“True genius doesn't fulfill expectations it shatters them.”
“You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.”
“The thing that makes you exceptional if you are at all is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
