Owning Quotes (page 244)

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• reality
• saying
• created

You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality? Paulo Coelho

• hell
• building
• owned

They build their own Hells. Jack Kerouac

• healing
• she
• herself

The Master is her own physician. She has healed herself of all knowing. Thus she is truly whole. Lao Tzu

• shine
• contentment
• bed

No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever. Edgar Allan Poe

• new york
• city
• new

These cities grew in approximately the same places as our cities do now, however different the shape of the continents was. There was even a New York that in some way resembled the New York familiar to all of you, but was much newer, or, rather, more awash with new products, new toothbrushes, a New York with its own Manhattan that stretched out dense with skyscrapers gleaming like the nylon bristles of a brand-new toothbrush. Italo Calvino

• power
• mother
• love your mother

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. J. K. Rowling

• weak
• opinion
• own

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. Henry David Thoreau

• humanity
• animal
• potato

If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows. Bill Bryson

• sympathy
• passion
• pride

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility. David Hume

• greatness
• pain
• pride

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche

• evil
• grace
• judge

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• life
• ignorance
• progress

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few. Terry Prachett

• inspirational
• god
• trust

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. Mahatma Gandhi

• friends
• mistake
• compassion

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? Youtake delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves."You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. Theyare my old friends. I have heard you mention them with considerationthese last twenty years at least. Jane Austen

• imperfection
• life
• destiny

it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. Elizabeth Gilbert