"Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self."

-- Gretchen Rubin

#Mirrors Quotes #Self Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Sometimes, as a young artist, I was looking for validation to know I was good enough, and that's what the initial audition gave me. It made me feel like I was doing something right, even if it is a scary or unstable path.”

Source : Source: www.sheknows.com
“Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true. â€”Luthe”
“Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.”
“[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.”
“Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.”

Source : Huey Long's note written on banners used in the 1928 gubernatorial election, as quoted in Hugh Davis Graham "Huey Long" (p. 39), 1970.
“Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.”
“Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men.”
“If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kirstie Alley from Aug 19, 2012

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