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24 Empowering Quotes

Posted on June 19, 2011 by

“I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

“Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.” ~ Tecumseh

“You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.” ~ Andy Warhol

“When I’m trusting and being myself… everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.” ~ Shakti Gawain

“One of the secrets of life is to be honestly who you are. Who others want you to be, who you used to be, and who you may some day become … these are fantasies. To be honestly who you are is to give up your illusions and face today with courage.” ~ Bill Purdin

“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.” ~ Judy Garland

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning to work on becoming yourself.” ~ Anna Quindlen

“I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.” ~ Anwar el-Sadat

“The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.” ~ Rod Steiger

“Never think you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.” ~ Anthony Trollope

“Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.” ~ Hasidic Saying

“The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one’s self.” ~ Nietzsche

“But the lightning which explodes and fashions planets, maker of planets and suns, is in him. On one side elemental order, sandstone and granite, rock-ledges, peat-bog, forest, sea and shore; and on the other part, thought, the spirit which composes and decomposes nature,—here they are, side by side, god and devil, mind and matter, king and conspirator, belt and spasm, riding peacefully together in the eye and brain of every man.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” ~ Unknown

“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” ~ Unknown

“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.” ~ Dr. Seuss

“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.” ~ Epicurus

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” ~ African Proverb

“The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” ~ Sonya Friedman

“You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!” ~ John Lennon

“If you have someone hating on you right now, you better think of how to get 5 more people hating by Christmas. You need haters to make you stronger. Without haters, most people wouldn’t try to become better. Just tell them ‘bitch you just hate me because you can’t be me…’” ~ Katt Williams

“Don’t try so hard to fit it when you were born to stand out.” – Unknown

“Pay no mind to those who talk behind your back, it simply means that you are two steps ahead.” ~ Unknown

“People who lack the strength to be themselves are always trying to tear down those who do.” ~ Unknown

Mark Twain Quotes

Posted on February 3, 2011 by

mark-twain – “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
– “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
– “Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
– “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

– “An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.”

– “Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.”

– “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

– “By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity — another man’s I mean.”

– “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”

– “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”

– “Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”

– “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

– “Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”

– “Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”

– “Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.”

– “Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.”

– “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”

– “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”

– “Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”

– “Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.”

– “Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.”

– “I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.”

– “I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.”

– “I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.”

– “I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.”

– “I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”

– “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

– “I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.”

– “I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.”

Paul Cezanne Quotes

Posted on January 19, 2011January 19, 2011 by

Today we share Paul Cezanne Quotes, celebrating him in our own way :)

A puny body weakens the soul.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I’m every inch a painter.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.

Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

I allow no one to touch me.

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

I have sworn to die painting.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.