Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
~ Shirley Hazzard
It's not the load that breaks you down it's the way you carry it.
~ Lena Home
I'm not overweight I'm just nine inches too short.
~ Shelley Winters
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
~ André Gide
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.
~ Margaret Drabble
Misery is a communicable disease.
~ Martha Graham
If you believe then you hang on. If you believe it means you've got imagination you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today I'll come in tomorrow.
~ Ruth Gordon
Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.
~ Sydney Smith
Despair is criminal.
~ Samuel Johnson
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint or hope of hearing?
~ Martin Marty
God hates those who praise themselves.
~ St. Clement
If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it And blow your own trumpet Or trust me you haven't a chance.
~ W. S. Gilbert
Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth.
~ Bible
It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.
~ Augusta Gregory
I don't follow precedent I establish it.
~ Fanny Ellen Holtzman
Your future depends on many things but mostly on you.
~ Frank Tyger
The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune.
~ Amelia Earhart
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
~ Quintus Ennius
The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.
~ Roseanne Barr
Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom?
~ Hazel Scott
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
~ François De La Rochefoucauld
The wise don't expect to find life worth living they make it that way.
~ Anonymous
I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me if I fail to make my own choices the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.
~ Liv Ullmann
To be a man is precisely to be responsible.
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing.
~ J. W. Jepson
He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.
~ William Graham Sumner
What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility place it in our hands and carry it with dignity and strength.
~ Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua
We are free up to the point of choice then the choice controls the chooser.
~ Mary Crowley
To be born free is an accident to live free a responsibility to die free is an obligation.
~ Mrs. Hubbard Davis
The best bet is to bet on yourself.
~ Arnold Glasow
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Do for yourself or do without.
~ Gaylord Perry
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan but to have any meaning or viability at all a life plan must include intimate relationships.
~ Harriet Lerner
The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life whether the case be one of coolish baked beans or an unrequited affection.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
For the great benefits of our being- our life health and reason-we look upon ourselves.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
~ Meryl Streep
A secure individual... knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.
~ Harry Browne
We're all in this together ... alone.
~ Lily Tomlin
No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.
~ Louis Brandeis
