#ourself

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others. ↗

— Bar Refaeli

#accept #happiness #love #others #who

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#allowing #become #believing #celebrity #danger

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#about #around #blow #crippling #deformity

I think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself. ↗

— Brandy Norwood

#belief #challenge #else #finding #going

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist. ↗

— Laura Nyro

#categorize #i #should #think #you

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#express #express yourself #how #just #know

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah. ↗

— Michael O'Donoghue

#end #government #hands #once #put

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#behind #car #doing #driving #housework

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. ↗

— Barack Obama

#asks #because #buck #certain #focusing

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now. ↗

— Mike Oldfield

#get #i #lawyers #now #probably