good quotes about yourself

A laugh is a smile that bursts. ~Mary H. Waldrip



The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ~Attributed to James A. Garfield



The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen. ~John Redman Coxe, 1800



A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Author Unknown



It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. ~Nicholas Johnson



What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables, 1822



The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected. ~Samuel Johnson



Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. ~Joshua L. Liebman



Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you. ~Mae West



Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~Oprah Winfrey



The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ~John, Viscount Morley, Address on Aphorisms



Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ~Max L. Forman



The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary. ~Martin H. Fischer



It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times.... What the Dickens is going on here? ~Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, Improving Risk Communication, 1989



If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ~Mother Teresa



Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it. ~Henry S. Haskins



In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life. ~John Diamond



Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~Author Unknown



If God asks that you bend, bend and do not complain. He is making you more flexible, and for this be thankful. ~Terri Guillemets