Top 98 My Ness Quotes
#1. Egoism [Ahamkar: Aham=I; kar=did] means 'I did'. Where one is not the doer and he says, 'I did'; that is egoism. To do egoism and to walk around with an inflated chest is pride (maan) and then to go on telling others 'I did it myself', is known as pride with my-ness (abhiman).
Dada Bhagwan
#2. As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self.
Dada Bhagwan
#3. The one with 'egoism' and 'my-ness' (mamata); the one with the awareness that 'I am the doer'- are all called 'Jiva' [living beings] and he who has attained the realization that 'I am not the doer, I am the Knower-Seer and I am the form of the eternal-bliss', then he is the 'Soul'!
Dada Bhagwan
#4. Tremendous my-ness' [mamta] is bound in the presence of Soul [Atma], and it is also in the presence of Soul that this my-ness is tremendously dissipated.
Dada Bhagwan
#5. As long as there is the egoism of 'I-ness' (hoonpanu) and the partiality towards 'my-ness' (marapanu), how can there be liberation till then?
Dada Bhagwan
#6. If one has egoism without my-ness, he will go to moksha; all this entrapment is there because of egoism with my-ness!
Dada Bhagwan
#7. My-ness (mamta) is indeed parigrah [attachment to material objects]; material object is not a parigrah. Gnani doesn't have My-ness (mamata), He has the eternal element (experience of Pure Soul).
Dada Bhagwan
#8. One can become 'Embodiment of Love' [Prem Swaroop], only when there is no my-ness [mamata].
Dada Bhagwan
#9. The true instrument is that, with the help of which, the egoism and my-ness goes away.
Dada Bhagwan
#10. How many types of 'my-ness' (mamata) are there?! There is my-ness in each & every hair. If a single hair is pulled out, he will become upset that my hair was pulled.
Dada Bhagwan
#11. The slightest awareness of 'my-ness' is indeed egoism.
Dada Bhagwan
#12. I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking like whoever was around me.
Jenny Hval
#13. I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.
Reese Witherspoon
#14. I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
Patrick Ness
#15. George Clooney sort of lost his 'George Clooney-ness' the first day I met him. He's not George Clooney in my eyes - he's George from Kentucky with an awesome, awesome heart.
Shailene Woodley
#16. My heart is broken, broken in a way that will never be healed, broken in a way that feels like it's going to kill me, too, right here on this stupid, freezing beach
Patrick Ness
#17. But the Spackle War was over a long time ago, wasn't it?"
"Thirteen years now."
"Thirteen years where you could have righted a wrong."
She finally looks at me. "Life is only that simple when you're young, my girl.
Patrick Ness
#18. Being this close to her silence is like my heart breaking all over the place. I can feel it, like it's pulling me down into a bottomless pit, like it's calling for me to just fall and fall and fall.
Patrick Ness
#19. Just remember, please, most of that stuff is in the past. It isn't the story I want to tell. At all.
You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story.
Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up.
Patrick Ness
#20. No," Seth says, firmly, "what I've learned is that there actually is more. There's you guys. You guys are my more.
Patrick Ness
#21. We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
Patrick Ness
#22. Ideals, my girl," she says. "Always easier to believe in than live."
"But if you don't at least try to live them," Bradley says, "then there's no point in living at all.
Patrick Ness
#23. I feel like I'm way down this deep, deep hole and I'm looking up and all there is is this little dot of light and I have to shout at the top of my lungs for anyone to hear me and even when I do, I say the wrong thing or they don't really listen or they're just humouring me.
Patrick Ness
#24. I wanted him to do it, I wanted it to happen-
And it did.
I controlled him. Just like the Mayor.
I watch him go, still walking to the food store, like it was his own idea.
My hands are shaking.
Bloody hell.
Patrick Ness
#25. I fight them every time I bandage the blackened eye of a woman, every time I remove shrapnel from a bomb victim. That's my war. That's the war I'm fighting.
Patrick Ness
#26. I hate myself so much I want to stick a knife in my heart.
Patrick Ness
#27. I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.
Joseph Kanon
#28. The purpose of a volcano is to die,' she says. 'Is this not what you strive for?'
'The purpose of a volcano is to die, my lady,' says the volcano, 'but as angrily as possible.
Patrick Ness
#29. I'm being careful with here, Harlow told me, apparently irritated by something I hadn't even had the time to say yet. She was making assumptions about my no-fun-at-all-ness. They were good assumptions.
Karen Joy Fowler
#30. People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.
Stewart Copeland
#31. But how are you this fine evening? - My arches are falling. - Isn't that the first line of a sonnet?
Patrick Ness
#32. I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.
Jeff Bridges
#33. It's like he's my family, except better, because I've chosen him.
Patrick Ness
#34. As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness."
Carl Whitaker
#35. Very few things hurt my young ego more than an Asian female openly shaming me for my Asian-ness. If she could not accept me, who could? If even Asian women saw the men of their own blood as less than other men, what was the use in arguing otherwise?
Alex Tizon
#36. In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
Patrick Ness
#37. TODD! I shout again -
And he looks at me -
And I hear my name in his Noise -
And I know it -
I know it in my heart -
Right now -
Todd Hewitt -
There's nothing we can't do together -
And we're gonna win -
Patrick Ness
#38. I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.
Patrick Ness
#39. There aren't any more treatments." "I'm sorry, son," his mum said, tears sneaking out of her eyes now, even though she kept up her smile. "I've never been more sorry about anything in my life." Conor
Patrick Ness
#41. If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
Patrick Ness
#42. And you," he says, "you need to talk to your boy." He lifts my chin. "And if he needs saving, then you save him. Isn't that what you told me you did for each other?"
I let go a few more tears but then I nod. "Over and over again.
Patrick Ness
#43. I wake up to my three dogs and my wife in bed and the kids, and those are the best gifts that I have.
Mike Ness
#44. The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.
Aisha Tyler
#45. Christ's own 'God-forsaken-ness' on the cross showed me where God is present where God had been present in those nights of deaths in the fire storms in Hamburg and where God would be present in my future whatever may come.
Jurgen Moltmann
#46. The attitude is in my personality. It's going to come out in the songs no matter what. If you're pushing the vocal constantly at 10, there's no room for any dynamics. There's no room for any variation in tone. There's no room for anything.
Mike Ness
#47. Mikey, she says, but not like she's about to say anything more, just like she's identifying me, making a place for me here that's mine to exist in. I want her so much, my heart feels heavy, like I'm grieving. Is this what they meant about that stomach feeling? They didn't say it felt this sad.
Patrick Ness
#48. After my parents divorced, my father remarried and my brothers were born when I was twelve and sixteen. I was thunderstruck at these kids. The "baby-ness" of them. Their toes. I had never been around babies before.
Leigh Newman
#49. Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#50. The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure
the future wild women of America. I couldn't help thinking that these little girls who love fairies deserve something lively.
Laura Amy Schlitz
#51. I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense of the almost arbitrary given-ness of experience, the fact that nothing can be taken for granted.
Marilynne Robinson
#52. I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you."
And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
Patrick Ness
#53. Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see ... Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'
Cole Porter
#54. Who will remember Todd?
Who will remember what he did?
Todd -
Todd -
And my heart breaks even more -
Breaks forever -
And I fall to my knees in the snow and sand -
And I yell out, wordless and empty -
And I drop the weapon.
Patrick Ness
#55. There's a quiet moment when my Noise fills the room with Manchee, just fills it with him, side to side, barking and barking and needing a poo and barking some more. And dying.
Patrick Ness
#56. My parents are Polish. I don't know anything about Italian-ness.
Harry Lloyd
#57. Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
Patrick Ness
#58. I don't think so," the Mayor buzzes -
And my feet stop running -
But then I pick up one -
And then the other -
And I'm running for it again -
I hear the Mayor laugh behind me. "Well done," he says.
Patrick Ness
#59. There's always a choice," Viola says by my side.
"Oh, people like to say that," the Mayor says. "It makes them feel better.
Patrick Ness
#60. I take my rucksack and go out the opening where the front door used to be. Manchee gets up from where he's curled and follows me. When I sit down, he recurls by my legs and fall asleep, farting happily and giving a doggy sigh. Simple to be a dog.
Patrick Ness
#61. Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting."
"No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't."
"I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.
Patrick Ness
#62. What had I done? Where was my fun? I wanted play, I wanted sun, he was the opposite - I called him Zum because he's an un-fun, the sort of mean-fun bully on the playground-fun. Mean Mr. Zum.
This was madness, this was badness this was sadness this was too much un-fun-ness.
Coco J. Ginger
#63. Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
Patrick Ness
#64. I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.
Patrick Ness
#65. Yep. His epic good looks without succumbing to the adorable label had made him a man-unicorn in my mind. Or a merman. Or a Loch Ness Monstman. He was a mystical creature.
Penny Reid
#66. Cuz when I held you for the first time this morning and fed you from my own body, I felt so much love for you it was almost like pain, almost like I couldn't stand it one longer.
Patrick Ness
#67. We drove in silence for a while.
"Can I have a gun?" I asked.
"No!"
"Just a little one? For my handbag? It'll give me some street cred with the client."
"No! No! No!"
His clenched fists pounded the steering wheel with each word.
- heller 1
J.D. Nixon
#68. I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
Patrick Ness
#69. My dad loved Scotland, so we would pile into his caravan and head for the Highlands, to Fort William and Loch Ness. It was such an adventure - my siblings and I were allowed to roam and explore the local beaches. We loved the freedom of those trips.
Rick Astley
#70. I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.
Allegra Huston
#71. Connor:I let her go. I could have held on but I let her go.
The Monster:And that is the truth.
Connor:I didn't mean it, though! I didn't mean to let her go! And now it's for real! Now she's going to die and it's my fault!
The Monster:And that is not the truth at all.
Patrick Ness
#72. I was taught early on in my recovery that, 'Pain is good. Extreme pain is extremely good.'
Mike Ness
#73. It's a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that's what gets lost in all that Noise.
Patrick Ness
#74. And, lastly, there's a small pack of wide-eyed innocents in awe of my Beacon-ness who follow me around expecting me to perform a miracle any minute. Sometimes I screw up my face like I'm trying. Or constipated.
Eliza Crewe
#75. The Apothecary was surprised. "You would give up everything you believed in?"
"If it would save my daughters," the parson said. "I'd give up everything.
Patrick Ness
#76. Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.
Eliot Ness
#77. Gust of British wind tousles my hair. (Top of the morning! Oh, no, wait, that's Irish.) It's
Patrick Ness
#78. I just feel like my body is in all these different pieces and even though it looks like I'm all put together, the pieces are really just floating there and if I fall down too hard, I'll fly apart.
Patrick Ness
#79. It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again - which I have - it's funny the other things that come back in with that open-ness. You have this ghost chorus of the lovers who came before, but they're benign now, they're good spirits.
Emma Forrest
#80. Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.
Daniel Goleman
#81. You nicked-named my daughter after the Lock Ness Monster!
Stephenie Meyer
#82. And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me.
And i fall back into it.
Patrick Ness
#83. Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'"
"There's only forward," I repeat.
"Outward and up," she says.
Patrick Ness
#84. You starting to feel hope yet?" Viola asks, her voice curious.
"No," I say, fuddling my noise. "You?"
Her eyebrows are up but she shakes her head. "No, No."
"But we're going anyway."
"Oh, yeah," Viola says. "Hell or high water."
"It'll probably be both," I say.
Patrick Ness
#85. Ultimately, my connection to my Indian-ness comes back to my mom and dad. They would all tell me and my siblings stories about their life in India, so it was very close to my two brothers and my sister and I.
Nikki Haley
#86. I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.
[Patrick Ness slams library cuts (The Guardian, 23 June 2011)]
Patrick Ness
#87. I'd keep my eyes open, remember who I was, and go in swinging
Patrick Ness
#88. And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't do together -
Patrick Ness
#89. This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.
Patrick Ness
#90. Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
Patrick Ness
#91. Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy you.
Patrick Ness
#92. I never want to lose my Canadian-ness ... and when I say Canadian-ness, I mean down-to-earth. I like being able to not take myself seriously and to not feel entitled.
Cobie Smulders
#93. I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month's time exactly.
Patrick Ness
#94. Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
Patrick Ness
#95. Manchee gets up from where he's curled and follows me. When I sit down, he recurls by my legs and falls asleep, farting happily and giving a doggy sigh. Simple to be a dog. I
Patrick Ness
#96. The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with its shape and made-ness, while my poems have become more and more free. The first word of every poem might be "Yes." The next words: "And then."
Jane Hirshfield
#97. History ain't so important when yer just trying to survive," I say, spitting it out under my breath. "That's actually when it's most important," Hildy says,
Patrick Ness
#98. I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?' ... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.
A. Balasubramaniam
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