My fears teach me courage. My weaknesses coach me to strength. My scars remind me not to make the same mistakes. I can become who I long to be by loving who I am now.
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Related I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, w... ANAïS NIN I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, w... ANAIS NIN My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them. MANAL AL-SHARIF Was he my home, then, my homecoming? You are my homecoming. When I’m with you and we’re well tog... ANDRé ACIMAN I only feel close to people who arouse my energy, who make enormous demands of me, who are capable o... ANAïS NIN I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is ... VIRGINIA SATIR My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I have
chosen to be. (from James Allen). WAYNE DYER Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be. ROBERT M. DRAKE I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity. LOUIS MACNEICE I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up. DEBRA WINGER I am who I am. I can be who I want to be by my own choice and my own pathway, but not by others path... ABDUS SALAM I am capable of thinking, but I am not my thoughts. I am the being who thinks my thoughts. Therefore... TERENCE T. GORSKI My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet t... MISSY ELLIOTT When I was 19 I started pestering my relatives who were willing to teach me. HANKUS NETSKY You'll always be my friend, won't you Fred? Don't let me fuck this up. I need you in my life now. I ... L.H. COSWAY Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman; Teach me to lose my selfish need, And ... SOURCE UNKNOWN Make me laugh. Make me cry. Tell me my place in the world. Lift me out of my skin and place me in an... DENNIS O'NEIL The chief means of resisting manipulation is humility – knowing who we really are and facing it. Y... GAYLE D. ERWIN Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. PARKER J. PALMER By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not i... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. ... ALYSON STONER I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet f... ST. JEROME I am thankful to my teachers who taught me how to read. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I've got to know my strength and weaknesses and the same for my competitors. CAROLINE BUCHANAN India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India m... SHASHI THAROOR I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my moth... ISABEL ALLENDE Life is like farting in front of someone and then trying to convince him, you didn't fart. It's hard... ME Just look at what is spelled: Hal Jordan BrUce Wayne Victor Stone Clark KenT... ME Realizing you have something in common with another person makes you more human than you were yester... ME :) If a fangirl tells you she likes you, you better be happy. Her standards are very high. ME I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am. CHANEL IMAN Ah, much deluded! lay aside Thy threats, and anger misapplied! Art not afraid with sounds ... JOHN MILTON The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living thing... Q'ORIANKA KILCHER I am lovable and capable. I am not perfect. I don’t have to be.
I have worth. My worth cannot be m... TOM KRAUSE I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told... JAMES CAAN I am free and not governed by your approval to be who you want me to be. I am alas only the person I... JASMINA SIDEROVSKI Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell... WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment.... STEVE GOODIER There was nothing to see, nothing to distract me from succumbing to my fears, and the longer I kept ... PAUL AUSTER I am capable of feeling, but I am not what I feel. I am the being who experiences my feelings. There... TERENCE T. GORSKI I cannot continue to live a life I am not born to live! I cannot continue to exert my full strength ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Right now I am really ecstatic. I was so happy for (coach Bill Miller). He's an amazing guy. He's be... SARAH SNYDER I think I am able to distinguish between those who love me and those who love my money. RONALDO My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am. KATIE LEDECKY Jonathan Drazen," I said, squeezing his hand. "You're a manipulative bastard, a brazen liar, and a s... C.D. REISS I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who... MARY J. BLIGE I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see m... JOHNNY WEIR The reason I am single is that I gave my all to people who are not giving me a chance. DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, s... JON KATZ This is great for me to be able to join my father. I certainly hope my daughter and my son, who is a... PETER FONDA I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. ... C. JOYBELL C. My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a re... ZERESENAY ALEMSEGED I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was... PAULO COELHO I DO Not relate to those who have come up without a struggle. My scuffles have made me who i am. I a... TRISH R DAVIS Teach me, O Lord, to glory in my cross. Teach me the value of my thorns. Show me how I have climbed ... GEORGE MATTESON I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince wil... BRITTANY SNOW I am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status. BILL COSBY IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would f... NAPOLEON HILL I have lived my life that way and I expect the people who work for me to be the same way. STUART PEARCE Please don’t hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Lovi... DARIA SNADOWSKY It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be w... CINDY CRAWFORD I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my ... SCOTT STAPP I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abro... KAJAL AGGARWAL If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For ... EVELYN WAUGH I think God leaves me alone to let me find my own strength because no one else can give it to me. So... SABRINA WARD HARRISON Had I never loved, I never would have been unhappy; but I turn to Him who can save, and if His wisdo... MARK TWAIN When I dream go into a parallel universe: dreaming of my past memories that my subconscious was hold... MARIAH REBECCA ARGUELLO I don’t care who stands against me and my dreams as long as I have a brother who believes in me DALEEN IRSHAID What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong,... ALEXIS ARGUELLO I'm just so tired of life being something that happens to me. That's not how it's supposed to work. ... JOSHUA EDWARD SMITH I'm going to have to stick with the 300 hurdles. There's not a lot of people who can do it and do it... AARON DOBSON Allow me to be me, accept me as I am.
Let me tell you my joys, take pride in my honesty.
Listen to m... JOHN B. BEJO If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am. CYRIL CUSACK Do not define me by my gender or my socio-economic status, Noah Willis. Do not tell me who I am and ... MEGAN JACOBSON I choose to be me, for now, and forever. I will live my life for me and by me. This is my life and I... AVINA CELESTE I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to... MARVIN GAYE It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we... JOHN CLAYTON O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation . Say it so tha... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO We Are All Zeros But We Can Make Ourselves As Heroes DR. ARUN S SON My dad is probably the biggest reason why I'm going there. He got to coach Tiffany and my brother (T... BRITTANY LEONARD I want to thank everyone who has supported me along the way and all those who recommended me to fill... DEREK DELPORTO My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am. GEORGE MACDONALD My friend is one... who take me for what I am. HENRY DAVID THOREAU I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my nam... MUHAMMAD ALI I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be da... EMERIL LAGASSE I want people who believe in my message and where I am on issues to support me. CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN My whole family has been such a great support, and they're the ones who have kept me grounded an... DAVID ARCHULETA I am not a philosopher who is trying to make a system of thought. I am a mystic who is trying to con... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was ... CHARLIZE THERON I came to love, I came into my own. THEODORE ROETHKE I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others empha... ANAïS NIN I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others empha... ANAIS NIN I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears ... GWEN STEFANI What interim means at this time I really don't know, but I hope it'll be for at least another year a... GEORGE MCKEOWN Thanks to those who hated me, you made me a stronger person. Thanks to those who loved me, you made ... RITU GHATOUREY It had to do with the doubts. The same niggling doubts I always had about not belonging. I didn't fe... GAYLE FORMAN I've dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actuall... RYAN SEACREST When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my min... HENRY B. EYRING It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back ag... HENRY ROLLINS For every person who closed the door in my face, thank you. For every person who told me I wasn't go... YVONNE PIERRE
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TONI MORRISON the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is i... TONI MORRISON Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets ... TONI MORRISON A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white pe... TONI MORRISON For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this cou... TONI MORRISON I hate sitting around labouring over things. I love just getting into it. TONI COLLETTE I take an active role in my imaging and how I look. TONI BRAXTON The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, d... TONI MORRISON As soon as the season starts, I start putting those commitments down on the calendar. Every letter, ... TONI HARRIS She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ... TONI MORRISON There is documentation that wearing a seat belt reduces injuries from 55 to 65 percent. The one thin... TONI TIANO We definitely looked rusty and out of sync since we hadn't played for almost two weeks. Our decision... TONI VARACCHI It was a bright, orange arrow, and at first in looking at it I didn't really know what it was, and a... TONI HARRIS In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard ... TONI MORRISON Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the lo... TONI MORRISON It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about ... TONI MORRISON Make a difference about something other than yourselves. TONI MORRISON Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal ... TONI MORRISON Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whethe... TONI MORRISON Whether it's a movie I'm in or not, if there's a good movie, and it's low budget, an... TONI COLLETTE Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous. TONI MORRISON She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was no... TONI MORRISON The desire, let alone the gesture,to meet her needs was good enough to loft her spirits to the place... TONI MORRISON Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't... TONI MORRISON Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] ... TONI MORRISON Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disabil... TONI MORRISON No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it wa... TONI MORRISON It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts. TONI MORRISON She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ... TONI MORRISON Hal Ashby is one of my favorite filmmakers. TONI COLLETTE I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill. TONI BRAXTON I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog. TONI BRAXTON It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, TONI BRAXTON Beauty and the Beast TONI BRAXTON