I'll walk where my own nature would be leading; it vexes me to choose another guide. (Quote by - Emily Bronte)

You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life. (Quote by - Saint Vincent Pallotti)

I want to do it because I want to do it. (Quote by - Amelia Earhart)

For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing. (Quote by - Leontyne Price)

Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do. (Quote by - Bette Midler)

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)

To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. (Quote by - e. e. cummings)

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. (Quote by - Stephen King)

Innovators are inevitably controversial. (Quote by - Eva Le Gallienne)

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities. (Quote by - Agnes Repplier)

If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy it there. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that. (Quote by - Toni Morrison)

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win. (Quote by - Lucy Stone)

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)

The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. (Quote by - Ugo Betti)

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind. (Quote by - Gail Sheehy)

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. (Quote by - Dr. Martha Friedman)

Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages. (Quote by - Hazel Henderson)

Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen. (Quote by - Martin Luther)

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)

The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others. (Quote by - Shirley MacLaine)

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. (Quote by - Anne Sexton)