“When I drive myself, my light is found.”
Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist
Lyrics, Make Yourself (1999)
Source: Good in Bed
“When I drive myself, my light is found.”
Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist
Lyrics, Make Yourself (1999)
“I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Memorandum reference to the instantaneous success of Childe Harold and quoted in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron by Thomas Moore (1830), chapter 14.
“Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.”
Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist
Leonard Bacon (1802–1881) American Congregational preacher and writer.
Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 511.
“I found a joy in myself, coming from the awareness that I want to fight.”
Witold Pilecki (1901–1948) World War II concentration camp leader and resistor
“In my attempt to be helpful, I found myself defending my suggestion.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.”
Novalis (1772–1801) German poet and writer
As quoted in Romantic Vision, Ethical Context: Novalis and Artistic Autonomy (1987) by Géza von Molnár, p. 2
Context: I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance
Throughout my being's limitless expanse,
Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages
I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.
“Through my tears
I found god in myself
and I loved her fiercely”
Ntozake Shange (1948–2018) Contemporary African American writer and performance artist
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1976)
Variant: i found god in myself
& i loved her/i loved her fiercely
“I couldn't possibly have become a member of this institute if I hadn't founded it myself.”
Jonas Salk (1914–1995) Inventor of polio vaccine
On the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the difficulties he has had with others involved in medical research because of his unorthodox approaches and attitudes, as quoted in a Brief biography at PBS.org http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bmsalk.html