Michel de Montaigne Quotes

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

I would say that we all - in whatever world we're in, whatever your occupation is, we all have a path to walk. We all have struggles.

Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world who would rise and shine Should seek internal excellence to win. And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind That where they meet they perish. All is fair When they are gone and nought remains behind.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

That the potential to become Level 5 exists in you and me and the people we work with and that it is then a process or a journey to nurture that seed... in a culture by and large that doesn't reinforce it.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Awareness is empowering.