#ourself

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write. ↗

— Maya Rudolph

#especially #fact #i #learned #now

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire. ↗

— Fred Shero

#fire #first #must #result #set

The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it. ↗

— Alfred Molina

#actor #any #doing #go #into

Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-single #brave #confidence #independence #loving-yourself

It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#doing #easy #everyday #everyday life #fun

If you try to breastfeed and it's not working, then you don't feel particularly good about yourself. ↗

— Denise Van Outen

#feel #good #particularly #then #try

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#discover #else #further #horizon #know

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#anything #our time #until #value #will

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.' ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#chef #conform #cooking #create #dish

This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey) ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#country #finding-yourself #inspiring #journey #literature