Quotes of: Being-yourself Keyword

Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Mothering while grieving should involve being understanding and keeping a gentle attitude toward yourself as you work to balance your own needs and your child's. You become stronger by remaining aware of your own well-being, which in turn makes you a...

Creative Grieving: A Hip Chick's Path from Loss to Hope

Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel... the moment you feel, you're nobody ― but-yourself ― in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else ― means to ...

E. E. Cummings: A Miscellany Revised

If you were upset about an ugly pimple on the end of your nose, you might try to feel better by keeping your pimple in perspective. You might compare your pimple situation to that of someone who was being eaten by a bear, and when you looked in the m...

The Wide Window

Many people think that being Christian makes you sort of subhuman or, at least, less than fully human. Guys out there on the street (people think) are having a wonderful time enjoying human life to the fullest, and we in the church are sort of crampe...

N.T. Wright

How can you be a 'Former-Father'? Is it possible to be a father but, because someone or something is determined to illegalize it, being a father becomes a thing of the past? Should you simply consign yourself to be effectively dead to your living chi...

H. Kirk Rainer

Know what being a man's pet means. And if you're ever lucky enough to find yourself with the choice, choose the pasture.

Comfort of Fences

All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.

Goodnight June

When facing unbeatable odds, just think of yourself as unbeatably odd. (The Hero's Guide to Being a Hero)

The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle

Being kind to others helps you become kind to yourself...think about it! Bullying Ben

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.

Richard Hell

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

Elizabeth Edwards

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

Robin S. Sharma

You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.

Ann Powers

You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.

Mike Davidson

Only worse thing than being cold, and too tired to defend yourself, is to be cold and alone. And I wouldn't ever wish that on nobody.

The Road to Jericho

It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint.

Monk's Hood

You will never make people happier than by being a happy person yourself.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Unrequited love is the only possible way to give yourself to another without being held in indentured servitude.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration