#myself

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#grow #i #i can #lives #much

I've done well for myself. ↗

— Billy Mays

#i #myself #well

I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive. ↗

— John McAfee

#describe #i #lucid #myself #quite

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#fortunate #i #level #more #myself

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it. ↗

— Oliver North

#considered #did #fall #guy #i

I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#i #longer #lose #more #much

What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#colours #confirmed #discovered #i #likes

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#began #best #compose #ever #gave

Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#complete #consciousness #does #everything #existence

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#cameras #chasing #dark #down #fact