Pain is meant to be temporary as long as you are not willing to give up on yourself. However, quitting never fails to make it last forever.
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.
Lesson one, introduce yourself to everyone when you walk into a room. Don't act like you're too bougie to say, 'Hello.'
As you get older, you're doing different parts, but the young people, like yourself, they keep you excited, because they'll see Waterfront, and they'll want to talk about it.
Seeing your glucose every minute on your phone, it really changes your lifestyle. You ask yourself, 'Do I really need that piece of cake? No, because I don't want to stress out my pancreas.'
The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.
I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.
I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.
Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.
Being beautiful isn't everything... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.
I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
Be the person you really are and not the person you'e allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Nikki. From 'Life Song
The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.
Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.
You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
