The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

I feel that the diary should never be the dreary kind of chronicle of any person’s movement or actions that they might have done in their life

You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong – to his own satisfaction.

The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience. The metaphysician reasons from theory to facts, the scientist reasons from facts to theory. The metaphysician explains the universe by himself, the scientist explains himself by the universe.

Her own terror rushed upon me, and in that moment of fear, – the most terrible fear a man can experience, – I knew that in inexpressible ways she was dear to me.

I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I’m just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.

I’m always going to do my own stunts. Always. I enjoy it.

A government of our own is our natural right.

My mind is my own church

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

Envy is an eyesore engendered by looking at another’s success thru the spectacles of our own inferiority.

She got to have her own money Shout out to the girls that pay their rent on time

I get lost under these lights I get lost in the words I say Start believing my own lies Like everything will be okay

Nature’s imagination far surpasses our own.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think what a waste of energy. If people want to believe in this god, or that god, that’s fine by me, believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

You can live by your own rules

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

I have always found the word ‘Europe’ on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

The luxury of one’s own opinion.

This will not be easy because it doesn’t come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible…Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective.

Each man’s hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

Words are animals, alive with a will of their own.

Do what you do and make your own way

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own

Every man got a right to decide his own destiny

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.

You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own

Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own

Start where you are, use what you have

All exercises that you do with your own body weight are great.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

Table the label and wear your own name.

A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one’s own.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self

Technological instruments are no more than extensions of our own senses and bodies, and our nervous systems

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Liars often set their own trap

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs

Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society

Jay-Z ain’t a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this; he been through the game for a long time, so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I’m not just making songs; I’m crafting experiences

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values—and follow my own moral compass—then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.

I own the guy guarding me.