Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

It's so much easier to give advice than to take it.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.

I learned from my past.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

I feel very ill-equipped to be giving anyone advice about their life.

I feel like I'm always talking about myself, and I love not talking about myself.

I'm not a person who regrets - it doesn't make me smarter to regret something.

I'm shocked at how much I can talk about myself.

As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.

I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want, which has worked out well for me.

While I ridicule books of self-help, I'm also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things.

Giving advice was a lot harder than following it.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.