"Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are."

-- Kathryn Harrison

#Want Quotes #Who You Are Quotes

“Turn wishful thinking into positive action. Those who take a proactive stance in their lives tend to have an ample supply of joy and pleasure”
“Cincinnati is perfect for me. I've met a lot of good people there who like to fish.”
“Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.”

Source : Neil T. Anderson, Mike Quarles, Julia Quarles (1996). “Freedom from Addiction: Breaking the Bondage of Addiction and Finding Freedom in Christ”, p.174, Gospel Light Publications
“Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.”
“Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?" "I was imagining it was Evor." "Strange that they do not resemble each other." "I have a good imagination." "Ah, in that case, I do not suppose you are imagining I'm Brad Pitt?”
“I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.”
“Science is not gadgetry.”

Source : Warren Weaver (1967). “Science and Imagination: Selected Papers”
“Money is the answer for everything.”

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