Be You Quotes (page 58)

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• best
• stayed
• likeness

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best. Clint Eastwood

• love
• you are loved
• loving what you do

You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it. Armand Assante

• empowering
• empower
• connected

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else. Adam Arkin

• bird
• environment
• walking

You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment. Karen Allen

• thoughts
• today
• tomorrow

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. James Allen

• good
• bad
• stubborn

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it. Willie Aames

• today
• admittedly
• admitted

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday Jonathan Swift

• god
• society
• insanity

You might hide in some Freudian jungle most of your miserable life, baying at the moon and shouting curses at God, but at the end, right down there at the damned end when it counts... you would sure as anything clear up just enough to realize the moon you have spent so many years baying at is nothing but the light globe up there on the ceiling, and God is just something placed in your bureau drawer by the Gideon Society. Yes, I sighed again, in the long run insanity would be the same old... Ken Kesey

• thankful
• thanks
• placed

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not! Dr. Seuss

• bed
• old
• ironic

You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone's yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. The tree knew. It came there first. Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to air and the Tree of Heaven flourished. That was the... Betty Smith

• may
• cheese
• potato

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are! Charles Dickens

• thinking you
• thinking
• only

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself. Margaret Atwood

• life
• fitness
• grateful

Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong Richard G. Scott

• love
• soul
• enough

You do not have to unburden your soul for everyone; it will be enough if you do that for those you love. Albert Camus

• bad
• look
• good

You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point. Haruki Murakami