"Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives"

-- Vernon Howard

#Self Quotes #Self Knowledge Quotes #Great Power Quotes

“We attach meaning to things, and things to meaning: endow them one way or another as if to prove to ourselves that we are who we are; this life really happened; we really have traveled this far in time and space.”

Source : "The Object Parade: Essays". Book by Dinah Lenney, 2014.
“No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.”

Source : Jacqueline Woodson (2009). “Peace, Locomotion”, p.19, Penguin
“Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.”

Source : Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.56
“Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.”
“I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person.”
“One idea lights a thousand candles.”
“When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”
“What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.”

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