#ourself

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#any #deal #empower #empowerment #know

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#mastering #others #power #true #yourself

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack. ↗

— Chris Evans

#differentiate #got #pack #something #want

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#fool #going #make #probably #publish

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. ↗

— Otto Dix

#chaos #dreams #effort #exorcism #i

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#championships #father #fun #gave #good

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them? ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#actor #arms #brain #brain cells #cells

You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#because #being #children #development #does

There's no one to stop you but yourself. ↗

— Dave Thomas

#you #yourself

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ↗

— Josh Billings

#child #go #once #should #travel