Quotes related to Galatians 6:4
when I ask you to earn money and have a room of your own, I am asking you to live in the presence of reality, an invigorating life, it would appear, whether one can impart it or not.
— Virginia Woolf
I like reading my own writing. It seems to fit me closer than it did before.
— Virginia Woolf
Perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one hopelessly discontented with one's own work.
— Virginia Woolf
there were masses of pictures she had not seen; however, Lily Briscoe reflected, perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one hopelessly discontented with one's own work.
— Virginia Woolf
There was a spectator in me who, even while I squirmed and obeyed, remained observant, note taking for some future revision.
— Virginia Woolf
You are you. That is what consoles me for the lack of many things.
— Virginia Woolf
When I rummage in my own mind I find no noble sentiments about being companions and equals and influencing the world to higher ends. I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else.
— Virginia Woolf
He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.
— Lao Tzu
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
— Lao Tzu
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
— Lao Tzu
Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
— Laurence Sterne
The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it
— Charles Dickens