My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other.
The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest "is". - Rossana Condoleo
I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.
Under a decades-old agreement, Palestinian refugee camps are supposed to administer and police themselves. Lebanese troops are technically not allowed to enter them.
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves.
Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect themselves.
People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.
In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.
Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.
The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.
If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there's nothing more attractive than someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously.
When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.
You see people on the street, talking to themselves, and you're like, 'What are they talking about?' I'm interested in that.
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
Encourage don't belittle, embrace their individuality. And show them that no matter what they will always have value if they stay true to themselves.
Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.
