quotes about Finding Oneself

“Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.”

“Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to achieve your objectives causes the same kind of chaos in foreign policy that it does in matters closer to home.”

“I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.”

“God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work.”

“It’s therapy. It’s just something to do so you’re not lost in your own not-so-nice thoughts, and it’s an opportunity to think about something a lot nicer and to do something that’s with more purpose. So you do it, and you take your passion and you put a lot into it, and at some point you get recognized for it. But that recognition doesn’t mean the man is without his own demons or without his own struggles.”

“True confidence comes from realizing the view.”

Source : Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Marcia Binder Schmidt, Erik Pema Kunsang (2001). “Vajra Speech”, p.32, Rangjung Yeshe Publications

“Kissing girls is easy, like breaking windows.”

“Only the home can found a state.”

Source : Joseph Cook (1885). “Frontier Savages, White and Red”

“I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.”

“There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.”