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.
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
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Between the poorest 50 percent (who own 5 percent of total wealth, or an average of 20,000 euros each in the example [Europe 2010]) and the richest 10 percent (who own 60 percent of total wealth, or an average of 1.2 million euros each) lies the midd...
But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cann...
He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they...
Most of us don't fear that we are not enough; what most of us really fear is our own greatness. Most of us have a fear of success. Why? Because we don't think that we deserve to be successful in anything. This is why people recklessly spend their mon...
