Ilene Beckerman quote: "When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters."

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking with...
BELLE LIVINGSTONE

I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and ho...
MICHAEL SCHENKER

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But...
DAVID BOWIE

I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I wa...
JOAN COLLINS

I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd b...
FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk...
HOWARD HODGKIN

I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I need...
SPENCER JOHNSON

I wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKS

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better da...
ROSA PARKS

I wish she had half a clue what seeing that happy face does for me. I can't quite explain it to myse...
MELYSSA WINCHESTER

All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it in...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the intere...
BASTIAN SCHWEINSTEIGER

He was easy to coach. I wish I could have had him for four years instead of one.
JAMES MOODY

When i was looking unto others for solutions to my problems,I realised that my problems increased th...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself; think of all the beauty in yourself a...
ANNE FRANK

Never say, "I already knew that." There's always something to be learned. Say instead, "I want to kn...
JOHN B. BEJO

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
JIMMY CARTER

He's tough [Tiger Woods]. I wish I was that tough when I was his age.
JOHN DALY

Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to b...
ALAN PATRICOF

I wish I could have her, Texas within Illinois so she could be happy.
MARLENE M. CHAVEZ

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I

Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
STANISLAUS I

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma...
BAUDOUIN I

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
NAPOLEON I

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I

One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su...
I CHING

The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema...
I CHING

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
I CHING

Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o...
I CHING

Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal de...
I CHING

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru...
I CHING

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re...
I CHING

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo...
I CHING

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then...
I CHING

He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather frie...
I CHING

Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a...
ELIZABETH I

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
ELIZABETH I

I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e...
ELIZABETH I

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
CHARLES I

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy...
BAUDOUIN I

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been ...
ELIZABETH I

Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let t...
I CHING

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings ...
FAROUK I

Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
CHARLES I

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.
ELIZABETH I

'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what the word did make i...
ELIZABETH I

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen...
ELIZABETH I

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...
I. KRISHNAMURTI

People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...

The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
ELIZABETH I

In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
ELIZABETH I

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
ELIZABETH I

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, an...
ELIZABETH I

If we still advise we shall never do.
ELIZABETH I

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
ELIZABETH I

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily ...
ELIZABETH I

The word must is not to be used to princes.
ELIZABETH I

The end crowneth the work.
ELIZABETH I

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
ELIZABETH I

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
ELIZABETH I

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
ELIZABETH I

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at lea...
ELIZABETH I

God forgive you, but I never can.
ELIZABETH I

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that ...
ELIZABETH I

The past cannot be cured.
ELIZABETH I

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
ELIZABETH I

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
ELIZABETH I

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a pe...
ELIZABETH I

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to th...
ELIZABETH I

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
ELIZABETH I

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and o...
ELIZABETH I

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
ELIZABETH I

All my possessions for a moment of time.
ELIZABETH I

You should learn how say things with your eyes that others waste time putting into words.
EYDEN I.

As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have ...
ELIZABETH I

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
ELIZABETH I

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dan...
ELIZABETH I

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
STANISLAUS I

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such s...
ELIZABETH I

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends ...
ELIZABETH I

(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)

"[W]hile we perceive ... th...
ELIZABETH I

[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., un...
ELIZABETH I

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having...
ELIZABETH I

To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it.
STANISLAS I

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters.

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