Be You Quotes (page 87)

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• charity
• humanity
• devil

You talk of her mind being unsettled. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity ! From pity and charity ! He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares! Emily Bronte

• good
• time
• thinking

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows. S. E. Hinton

• be yourself
• personality
• bad

you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself. Jodi Picoult

• you me
• night out
• lion

You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you. Margaret Mitchell

• evening
• facing fear
• experience

You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear. Joseph Heller

• enough
• old
• again

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you. Samuel Beckett

• top
• closed
• meanness

Being average means you are as close to the bottom as you are to the top. John Wooden

• creativity
• mood
• moods

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic. Bill Watterson

• emotional
• partly
• expressive

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject. Henri Matisse

• hurt
• brave
• opportunity

You haven't hurt people—you've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it. Suzanne Collins

• die
• died
• things

You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant. Will Smith

• thinking
• true
• thing

You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true ! Philip Pullman

• wills
• liked
• liking

You can do what you like, but the outcome will be the same. E. M. Forster

• thinking
• wellness
• go

You're going to be thinking anyway. . . you might as well think big. Donald Trump

• missing
• ironic
• dream

You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers! Edith Wharton