When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.
Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.
When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.
No matter how many books you own, you can never own enough. Reading books is the best addiction anyone can have.
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.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives.
People call you extremist when you are spreading Islam but always remember that you are not..they are extremist because they are endangering there own life with there own hands.
It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself.
It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you.
I'm back in Boston. I own an outdoor deck hockey rink, and I own a boxing gym here also.
If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
There's no reason for any of us to face reality if we don't like it.
Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries.
How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.