#you

Keep thinking back about what Mum said about being real and the Velveteen Rabbit book (though frankly have had enough trouble with rabbits in this particular house). My favorite book, she claims of which I have no memory was about how little kids get one toy that they love more than all the others, and even when its fur has been rubbed off, and it's gone saggy with bits missing, the little child still thinks it's the most beautiful toy in the world, and can't bear to be parted from it. That's how it works, when people really love each other, Mum whispered on the way out in the Debenhams lift, as if she was confessing some hideous and embarrassing secret. But, the thing is, darling, it doesn't happen to ones who have sharp edges, or break if they get dropped, or ones made of silly synthetic stuff that doesn't last. You have to be brave and let the other person know who you are and what you feel. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#velveteen-rabbit #beauty

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. ↗

— Julia Child

#beautifully #been #fingers #know #over

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself. ↗

— Criss Jami

#being-yourself #celebrities #emotional #facade #fame

When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#best-version #happiness #inspirational #inspire #life

YOU are your love of a lifetime. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#lifetime #love #loving-yourself #relationship #experience

The young need discipline and a full bookcase. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#youth #discipline

What are you boys doing?” she asks, as if we’re still little kids messing around. “Arguin’,” Carlos says matter-of-factly. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#humour #romance #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #funny

Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defense, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#young-adult #home

Embrace life for all its worth. Drink in God's wisdom, and savor all the experiences He offers you. ↗

— Michelle McKinney Hammond

#michelle-mckinney-hammond #what-to-do-until-love-finds-you #experience

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#faith