#self

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them. ↗

— Phyllis Bottome

#difficulties #meeting #them #two #ways

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#never #whom #will #you #yourself

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#any #bare #blew #completely #door

I'm not out running around all the time. I'm not partying constantly and constantly battling myself. I'm with someone, and we are very, very happy. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#battling #constantly #happy #i #myself

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#away #comedy #consider #does #doing

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world? ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#cared #change #change the world #deep #deep way

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#black #defend #defense #hard #himself

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#care #how #i #judged #maybe

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#forlorn #hope #impossible #lovers #pity

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous. ↗

— Chris Evert

#being #being famous #dangerous #famous #formed