1,328 quotes found
“Once power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.”
“It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.”
“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.”
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.”
“Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."”
“Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.”
“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.”
“What poison is to food self-pity is to life.”
“He who complains sins.”
“This life is not for complaint but for satisfaction.”
“Suffering isn't ennobling recovery is.”
“When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.”
“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.”
“When you find yourself overpowered as it were by melancholy the best way is to go out and do something.”
“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.”
“Our family never had any hard luck because nothing seemed hard luck to it nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.”
“Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.”
“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 grow...”
“It's not the load that breaks you down it's the way you carry it.”
