Whoever knows how to use a pen never adds his own name to the "guilty" list.
A man need never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his own door.
Before you prepare to improve the world, look around your own house three times.
Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.
Birth, ancestry, and that which you yourself have not achieved can hardly be called your own.
When your own funeral is approaching, you don't pick and choose your grave diggers.
Better an ugly duckling from your own village than a beauty from foreign parts.
Give your children too much freedom and you lose your own.
If you throw nettles into your neighbors garden you will find them growing in your own.
Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors.
You don't really see the world if you only look through your own window.
[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if eithe...
I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother's mother. Your father's mother's mother's mother. I hardly knew her. I didn't have any interest in knowing her. I have no need for the past, I ...
If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my heart His love for the world, and this was my most prideful, foolish, and dangerous prayer. It was my step into the abyss. As soon as I prayed it, I knew t...
All my life, I thought I was this independent woman. I was on all the right committees, made speeches for all the right causes, traveled all over the world. I had my little part-time job, I made all my own decisions, but . . . there was always someon...
And so I was scared. I was scared of my own sexual hunger, which felt so secretive and uncharted, and I was scared of the sexual hunger of boys, which felt so vivid and overt, and I was terribly uncertain of the relationships between sex and power an...
And still, still, there is more to describe- we paint because drawing breath is an agony and exhaling an ecstasy and somewhere in the space in-between we think we once found a truth; and the eternal part of us desires to share this truth at all costs...
I hope that I get to see you love what you are. To know yourself as gift and worth and truth. That you see what a huge thing it is to have the courage to break your own heart. That you have chosen wholeness — even when it has shattered you. And tha...
I just believe that us as women— should not criticize nor pull down other women. And why? Because we’re all just trying our best to be beautiful! We all just want to be loved, we want to be beautiful, we’re all trying to leave our own legacy! T...
Henry Barthes: How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you? Henry Barthes: Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false. Henry Barthes: Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pr...
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. Proverbs 26.5
