Quotes of: Be-yourself Keyword

She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself.

The Summer I Turned Pretty

What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom

Survivor

The best way to dig yourself out of a hole, is with a dead guy’s fingernails. Then, once you’re out of the hole, finish burying that dead guy before the cops arrive.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

In difficult moments it’s sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can’t, move on to the second best thing.

Sweet Tooth

Just resign yourself to the fact that you're going to be miserable so you can finally be happy.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

If the world appears abundant in smiles or overwhelmed by scowls, you might ask yourself if you're not to blame.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Don't be so hard on yourself....that's what a loofah's for

And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?

When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.

Three Weeks With My Brother

There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,000. See? Nothing to it.

For the Time Being

It's the colors that will make you stray. They sing to you, the not-blue and the searing light, and no matter how tightly you tie yourself to the inbetween, eventually you will break free. No one swims only in the shallow water.

Tides

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.

Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The good thing about having our buttons pushed is that we can no longer ignore the sensitive areas where we need to heal.

Over iT: How to Live Above Your Circumstances and Beyond Yourself

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

The Pieces We Keep

What do you resist examining up close? How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try?

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Travel in the direction of what you resist. On the way, you will meet a version of yourself who has been seeking you.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Do as you must -- you are not a child. But understand that there are many people willing to make your life more difficult. It is up to you to find a way to make things easier for yourself.

The Pearl that Broke Its Shell

Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don't leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.

Put That in Writing

If you’ve broken any promises you’ve made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.

Postcards and Pearls:Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York

If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.

The Quiet Crisis And The Next Generation

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963