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Owning Quotes (page 108)

Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values & priorities Stephen Covey
From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible yearnings, and their most soul-killing doubts. I trust the great novelists to teach me how to live, how to feel, how to love and hate. I trust them to show me the dangers I will encounter on the road as I stagger on my own troubled passage through the complicated life of books that try to teach me how to die. Pat Conroy
I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I drank my bottle of milk and ate my morsel of bread somewhere on the outskirts, while I circumspectly studied my environment or else fell to meditating on my own harsh lot. Adolf Hitler
Walter Scott quote: "Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own..."
Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow. Walter Scott
(He) looked directly into his own eyes, as though his eyes were neutral territory, a no man’s land in a private war against narcissism. J. D. Salinger
She had grasped the inner meaning of the Party's sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party's control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was most important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war fever and leader worship. George Orwell
They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually were. E. M. Forster
I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies. Penn Jillette
Jane Austen quote: "[…] no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels..."
[…] no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex […] Jane Austen
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Today our unsophisticated cameras record in their own way our..."
Today our unsophisticated cameras record in their own way our hastily assembled and painted world. Vladimir Nabokov
Is it a mausoleum, and I, the Egyptiab, mummified with pillows and my own flesh, through some oversight enbalmed alive? There must be some mistake. Margaret Laurence
But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why should he say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable. How were people, at that rate, to be understood? Jane Austen
Joseph Campbell quote: "You are the Hero of your own Story."
You are the Hero of your own Story. Joseph Campbell
Robert Cormier quote: "They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless..."
They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too. Robert Cormier

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