Bernard Manning on self
Bernard Manning7 quotes“I’m not saying my mother-in-law is fat – because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.”
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I once got sacked for laughing … mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.
Bernard ManningBernard Manning I’m glad I’m not bisexual. I couldn’t stand being rejected by men as well as women.
Bernard ManningBernard Manning I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
Bernard ManningBernard Manning If you want to drink, have a drink… if you want to drive, then drive… there’s nothing worse than having a smash sober.
Bernard ManningBernard Manning I’ve got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you’re 71 years old. People just think I’m a silly old fool.
Bernard ManningBernard Manning You are what you eat…..I’ve eaten so many fat cunts you wouldn’t believe
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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More on self
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
Watchman NeeWatchman Nee We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
PlotinusPlotinus Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
PlotinusPlotinus He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
Watchman NeeWatchman Nee Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
Maria MontessoriMaria Montessori It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinPierre Teilhard de Chardin Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs