Yourself Quotes (page 93)

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• reality
• look
• popular

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself. Jodi Picoult

• forgiveness
• learning
• forgive yourself

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Morrie Schwartz

• freedom
• writing
• saying

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. Madeleine L'Engle

• pain
• dead
• things

To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing. David Foster Wallace

• defenders
• banana
• defended

How to defend yourself against a banana John Cleese

• laughed
• who
• laughing

If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at? Tiger Woods

• expectation
• mindfulness
• believe yourself

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses. Norman Vincent Peale

• alone
• being alone
• increasingly

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular. Jenny Holzer

• consistency
• manners
• consist

You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself. Zig Ziglar

• learning
• mistake
• enough

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt

• love
• learning
• feeling

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. Norman Mailer

• thinking
• thinking you
• personal

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun. Stephen Fry

• to live
• lived
• other

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• live your life
• earth
• inspirational

Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself. Charles de Lint

• growing up
• real
• ups

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself. Ethel Barrymore