Top 100 Ones Own Quotes
#1. No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
#2. Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.
Paul Morabito
#3. Laughing at ones own attempt at humor while saying things just come to me should be punishable by death.
Dov Davidoff
#5. Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.
Zadie Smith
#6. There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.
Israel Horovitz
#7. Ones own soul, and the passions of one's friends - those were the fascinating things in life.
Oscar Wilde
#8. Ardent believers hide within the safety of their absolutes, for much more courage is needed to abandon their cozy security for the questioning of ones own beliefs.
Galen Watson
#9. The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.
Yusef Lateef
#10. Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Saskya Pandita
#11. Doubt is a disease that infects the mind creating a mistrust of peoples motives and ones own perceptions. Doubt has the ability to call into questions everything you ever believed about someone and reinforce the darkest suspicions of our inner circle.
Emily Thorne
#12. Smugness in ones own self-knowledge is often a signal that you don't know as much as you think you do.
Erin Wunker
#13. He carries no burden, he feels no pain. What man, like woman, lies down in the darkness and gets up with child? The gentle, smiling ones own the good secret. Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make flesh that holds fast and binds eternity.
Ray Bradbury
#14. In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him
Charles Buxton
#15. It is only within knowing ones own self that truth resides & peace prevails.
Truth Devour
#16. Life is a predestined culmination built upon ones own decisions.
Saim .A. Cheeda
#17. Apparently women are phenomenal creature, but to be contented with ones own beauty is a risk only few can take.
Lawrence Okafor
#18. this very act of consenting to its loss of control is itself the critical event of all crisis. To give up ones stature as the director of ones own existance: this is, for us, the ultimate death, the crisis that undermines our being in the most radical way.
Jerome A. Miller
#19. There was also something spiritual about being in tune with ones own body, and being able to move it through space with no limits or barriers.
Ashley Kalym
#20. To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.
Ilyas Kassam
#22. Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there was the abject fear you would lose it. They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.
Harlan Coben
#23. How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory?
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#24. Choosing to live without hope is to knowingly extinguish ones own life. I choose to live, and so it may just be that hope is my closest companion.
Carrie Delatte
#25. True peace is not found in external circumstances, but within ones own heart.
Graham Aitchison
#26. The first most important , critical and strategic coalition in an individual's life is the coalition with ones own self.
Sameh Elsayed
#27. To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.
Meher Baba
#28. Fuck the ones who hurt you
Stop thinking about them,
Get on with your own life
They'll eventually come back with apologies
And you'll gladly accept them; as you keep growing with your life.
Nikki Rowe
#29. To the sight of the swallows dying in mid air, Alessandro was finally able to add his own benediction. "Dear God, I beg of you only one thing. Let me join the ones I love. Carry me to them, unite me with them, let me see them, let me touch them." And then it all ran together, like a song.
Mark Helprin
#30. I love, I love beauty
and in it I worship my follies,
the ones I found on my own,
and the ones to which I was led
Adonis
#31. The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.
Paul Newman
#32. All of us who are living are dying. The only ones not dying are the dead.,,To live was to be haunted by the inevitability of one's own decay, and to be dead was to be haunted by the memory of living.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#33. There's extra suffering when someone you love dies by their own hand. The ones left breathing got to find their own way to survive and make it through living still.
Sandi Morgan Denkers
#34. You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
Nikki Giovanni
#35. The children you don't especially need, you have always with you, like the poor. But the bright ones get away from you. They have their own way to make in the world. Seems like the brighter they are, the farther they go.
Willa Cather
#36. People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune ... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.
Soren Kierkegaard
#37. It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.
Terry Pratchett
#38. Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.
Donna Tartt
#39. I'm a big 'Goosebumps' fan - 'Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.' My favorites are the pick-your-own-death ones.
Tyler, The Creator
#40. Great sex is all about freedom and being everything you've always wanted to be. Know now that the only limits you have in regards to your own sexuality are the ones you impose on yourself.
Roberto Hogue
#41. He felt like a criminal, though the only laws he'd broken were his own, and he wasn't sure which ones they were.
Hanif Kureishi
#42. There are times when we can blame a situation on others, but we own our reactions to them. There comes a point where we are the ones responsible for our choices and excuses don't carry weight anymore.
Penelope Douglas
#43. We must trust that what we're doing has a purpose. We must realize that we're not here to make kids conform or perform, but that we're here to help them to develop their own unique skills and talents, not the ones we want them to have or the ones we think they should have.
Tom Walsh
#44. It's considered bad form to laugh at your own jokes (especially when they're teensy ones), but some people are so engaging they never have to laugh alone. Chaz
Stephen King
#45. Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.
Joanie Connell
#46. Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews.
Evan Daugherty
#47. Increasing complexity on its own is not, however, the ultimate goal or end-product of these evolutionary processes. Evolution results in better answers, not necessarily more complicated ones. Sometimes a superior solution is a simpler one.
Ray Kurzweil
#48. His real point was not that a market-based order was perfect or even perfectible. Rather, it was more beneficial, and ultimately more rational, than ones put together by politicians or rulers, who are themselves creatures of their own passions and whims.
Arthur Herman
#49. Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions
Duncan William Gibbons
#50. Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
Meryl Streep
#51. Realize that by hurting your own characters, you are not a sadist. You are not deliberately hurting your loved ones merely to watch them suffer. You're giving a gift. You're helping them grow and develop. Your characters take on deeper meaning to become more alive on your pages. They'll become real.
James Chartrand
#52. There is no country on earth that has done more for our own poor and for the poor around the world. We are not the ones that need to be targeted.
Rush Limbaugh
#53. But if you must know, your moon here is rather more powerful than the ones around my own world."
"The moon?" said Twoflower. "I don't under-"
"If I've got to spell it out," said the troll, testily, "I'm suffering from chronic tides.
Terry Pratchett
#54. My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
Wole Soyinka
#55. It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school - we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.
Christopher Paolini
#56. That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
Zoe Kravitz
#57. His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.
Publilius Syrus
#58. Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
Deepak Chopra
#59. [ ... ] God's message is that we are largely on our own. We are the ones who give moral guidelines body and life. You can take, if you will, your solace in heaven, but you must work out your ethics on earth.
Susan Neiman
#60. The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
William M. Evarts
#61. Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.
Benjamin Disraeli
#62. Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.
Elizabeth Wordsworth
#63. Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.
Michel De Montaigne
#64. He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.
Adam Langer
#66. It is often while travelling through the dark that you find the ones who shine brightest in your life. For they are the ones who remind you of your own beautiful light and show up, without a second thought, in your pain, as well as your glory.
Anna Taylor
#67. The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.
Orson Scott Card
#68. We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own lives. And then suddenly it's over, and we have to start again.
Alan Brennert
#69. Along the way, he followed his own advice and snagged a pair of mismatched daggers from the corpses of fallen archers. They weren't as well-made as the ones he'd taken from the dead rogue, but they had pointy ends he could stab into people and that was really all that mattered in a dagger.
Drew Hayes
#70. There are so many forms, I believe people are bright enough to make their own laws, more subtle ones than we've had before.
Joan Littlewood
#71. I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#72. These weren't comforting nights, much less pleasant ones, but Espinoza discovered two things that helped him mightily in the early days: he would never be a fiction writer, and, in his own way, he was brave.
Roberto Bolano
#73. I know what you might be thinking here on your own, but those thoughts won't last for ever,' I said. 'You won't always feel like this. This will pass. Homer will be here for you, and the sun will rise and you'll find your reasons again. The ones you think have deserted you. Isn't that right, Meg?
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
#74. Sometimes when we say "God is silent," what's really going on is that he hasn't told the story the way we wanted it told. He will be silent when we want him to fill in the blanks of the story we are creating. But with his own stories, the ones we live in, he is seldom silent.
Paul E. Miller
#75. In Vitrag-Vignan [science of vitraag lords, the enlightened ones] there cannot be the slightest of the [wrong] insistence; moreover, there can be no insistence on one's own opinion.
Dada Bhagwan
#76. Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit ... the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.
Otto Rank
#77. As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#78. Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
David Bowie
#79. Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.
Amy Waldman
#80. But that's the beauty of boarding school. I make all my own decisions, small and medium, while the big ones are left up to the Prefect Academy - and as far as boys go, to the only expert I know - Suzanne Santry
Adriana Trigiani
#81. All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
Francois Fenelon
#82. It's kind of strange ... All these so-called myths and fables. Everyone seems to have the same ones. They cross cultures and continents. Everyone has their own versions of unicorns, witches, even the Fates. Now we know why. Because they're real.
Maurissa Guibord
#83. I happily forgot his little collection of crimped and cramped fruit trees in my own new world, my America of endless natural ones in Devon.
John Fowles
#84. They were both from the real world, their own distinct ones, but I was somewhere in limbo. Set apart, I didn't know how to let either of them in.
Amina Gautier
#85. I used to say ... 'Don't sweat the small stuff
not even the big stuff.' At the end of the day, none of it matters but your own joy, your own spiritual journey that you go on, God, your loved ones, your friends, your animals. These are the things you've got to cherish and love and embrace.
Christina Applegate
#86. The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.
Billy Bob Thornton
#87. O, the atrocity of the sin of a pardoned soul! An unpardoned sinner sins cheaply compared with the sin of one of God's own elect ones, who has had communion with Christ and leaned his head upon Jesus' bosom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#89. The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.
Guy Finley
#90. It is easy to do things for our own families and loved ones, but to give of our substance for the stranger who is in need is the real test of our charity and love for our fellowmen.
Nathan Eldon Tanner
#91. My cats, the ones that I have, were feral when I found them so the relationship that I have with them 10 years in is very mutual, earned, and evolved over time. It was never an easy thing. I like that they have a certain distance and have their own sense of selves.
Marc Maron
#92. I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain.
- Kate
Elizabeth Scott
#93. Raven could destroy me. He could twist any one of the missteps I had made around him until he owned me. That he hadn't yet didn't mean he wouldn't ever. It just meant I was of more use to him running on my own steam, making fresh mistakes to compound the old ones than under his auspices.
Hailey Edwards
#94. The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#95. Perfect the Will, the Mind, Feeling, their corporeal organs and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others; and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself
Boleslaw Prus
#96. I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest.
John Darnielle
#97. The goals you will attain are the ones you know whitout a doubt that you must reach in order to fulfill your own best possibilities
Ralph S. Marston Jr.
#98. It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#99. He was a religious kid, and the goldsmith's trade turned him off. He spent all day melting old baubles down to make new ones - and he knew his own work was going to suffer the same fate. Everything he believed told him: This is not important. There is no gold in the city of God.
Robin Sloan
#100. One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.
Joanne Harris
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