1,328 quotes found
“Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.”
“We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.”
“Until we see what we are we cannot take steps to become what we should be.”
“When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live.”
“If you do not ask yourself what it is you know you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.”
“Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.”
“Self-searching is the means by which we bring new vision action and grace to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures. With it comes the development of that kind of humility that makes i...”
“You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.”
“Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful if you have that but learn to love what you have.”
“The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.”
“I shall be an autocrat that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me that's his.”
“Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.”
“To say something nice about themselves this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.”
“After my screen test the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled "She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!"”
“Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings they gradually begin to seem mild harmless rather engaging little things not at all like the staring defects in other people's charact...”
“It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try to hide them and our desire to act as if they did not exist.”
“Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.”
“A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.”
“Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.”
“I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.”
