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Owning Quotes (page 101)

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get to other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. Henry Ford
William Shakespeare quote: "Shame to him whose cruel striking, kills for thoughts of his..."
Shame to him whose cruel striking, kills for thoughts of his own liking. William Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde quote: "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose..."
What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Oscar Wilde
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want... W. Somerset Maugham
What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then? Carl Jung
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.And men take care that they should. Jane Austen
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I..."
No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. Robertson Davies
Step off assuredly into the blank of your own mind. Something will come to you. Although at first You nod through nothing like a fogbound prow, Gravel will breed in the margins of your gaze Richard Wilbur
I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse. Fyodor Dostoevsky
It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case. George Orwell
The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world. Arthur Golden
He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him.~ Stephen speaking of Rachael Charles Dickens
Georgia O'Keeffe quote: "I decided to accept as true my own thinking."
I decided to accept as true my own thinking. Georgia O'Keeffe
The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that. Thomas Wolfe

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