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Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein

Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz

We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

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

The common denominator of our heroes
is that each set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus

Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus

Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison

The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung

All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- John Muir

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Living in fear of anything is a terrible waste
of what could be a great life.
If you live in fear of losing your job,
either you fear the embarrassment of being jobless,
or you fear the loss of material goods -
house, car, and such.
If you live in fear of losing your stuff and money,
it is clear that they own you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder

Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Show me a man who knows his own heart
and to him I shall belong.
- Jewel

Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell

Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

If someone irritates you, it is only
your own response that is irritating you.
Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you,
remember that it is only your judgment
of the incident that provokes you. -
- Epictetus

Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie

No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead

It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson

It is your own life, certainly, to spend as you choose.
- Tanya, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure
the inner perfection of his own personality.
- Albert Schweitzer

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of my own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell

The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The River of Life is timeless.
It is not unchanging, but it is timeless,
and it changes in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Truth has no special time of its own.
Its hour is now - always.
- Albert Schweitzer

Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is a fact that cannot be denied:
the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness
because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
- Carl Jung

Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
- Kamran Hamid

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare

Be Your Own Personal Greatest Hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung

Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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