“ Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control. Gina Carano
“ The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from. Clarence Clemons
“ Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. Lord Byron
“ So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women. Harriet Beecher Stowe
“ You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I don’t want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back,… Jeanette Winterson
“ I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects… Anne Lamott
“ Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel. Stephen Kinzer
“ I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self. Sia
“ The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without. Samuel Butler
“ I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts. Sally Field
“ 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
