Be You Quotes (page 39)

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• shadow
• work
• ultimate

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe. Philip K. Dick

• motivational
• great
• greatness

you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. Les Brown

• forgiveness
• thinking
• beings

You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs. Stephenie Meyer

• saves
• being
• too

You could only save someone who wanted to be saved; otherwise, you’d be dragged down for the count too. Jodi Picoult

• time
• player
• players

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This is your time. Now get out there and take it. Herb Brooks

• water
• look
• drama

You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop is full of life - strange beings swimming, crawling, tumbling; high dramas of pursuit and escape, triumph and tragedy. This is a world populated by beings far more exotic than in any science fiction movie... Carl Sagan

• alone
• being alone
• mistake

You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too. James Joyce

• adulting
• may
• impressive

You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them - no matter how old or impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much - we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. Leo Rosten

• personal
• saying
• enough

You know what I am?" he says."What?"I'm an ordinary person."Come on."I know. Who isn't an ordinary person? How horribly presumptuous to want to be anything else. But I have to tell you. I've been treated as something special for so long and I've tried my hardest to be something special but I'm not, I'm not exceptional, I'm smart enough, but I'm not brilliant and I'm not spiritual or even all that focused. I think I can stand that, but I'm not sure if the people around me can. Michael Cunningham

• work
• hair
• white

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. Billie Holiday

• him
• feeling
• you me

You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me. Suzanne Collins

• willingly
• humiliating
• willful

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated. W. H. Auden

• life
• death
• fear

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised. Ursula K. Le Guin

• learning
• evening
• humanity

You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty. Bing Crosby

• rightfully
• rightful
• beings

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else. August Wilson