Quotes of: Own Keyword

I practice neither black nor white magic. What I do is a technology that I use for my own individual purposes. I don’t strive to be a member of a club.

Master and Apprentice

He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student.

A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children

I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

I am a social outcast, shunned by society. Nobody ever invites me to parties. My own birthday avoids me, and only comes around every two years.

Sleepwalking is restercise

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Travel as a Political Act

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

Phoning Home: Essays

The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Here in this endless and gleaming wilderness I was removed farther than ever from the world of men -- And I never saw so close and so clearly The image in the mirror of my own soul.

Poems

He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Sure, I’d fake my own death. But only if I had the following items: duct tape, seven slinkies, a parachute, and a mannequin that looked like me.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If I had my clone take a test for me, it’s likely I’d misspell my own name. And I’m terrible at remembering people’s names—even if that person is me.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I’d like to make a statement, and I’d like to make it out of my own small intestines.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?

Ten Things I Hate about You

No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

I was worried about my own vagina. It needed a context of other vaginas-- a community, a culture of vaginas. There's so much darkness and secrecy surrounding them-- like the Bermunda Triangle.

The Vagina Monologues

After Arthur sent me away for my own good, it' like my life switched from color to black and white--like the ending of The Wizard of Oz.

Wide Asleep

He wiped the sweat from his face on his sleeve, squared his shoulders, and strode back into the fray. All there was to do was his duty.

Written in My Own Heart's Blood

God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.

A Woman After God's Own Heart

Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him.

A Wife After God's Own Heart