#your

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#being #better #bit #changed #culture

They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh. ↗

— Mike Epps

#call #come #comedy #dealers #down

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#being #different #earth #fire #heart

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that? ↗

— Omar Epps

#because #believe #door #going #i

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with. ↗

— Omar Epps

#certain #certain things #fame #get #life

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it. ↗

— Ralph Boston

#anything #athletes #beat #big #big issue

How hard could it be? Is it really going to hurt? You get into that deep well of emotion if you are by yourself. Why am I here? What's the point of going on? If I can't do what I want to do, then what's the point? ↗

— Brian Bosworth

#could #deep #emotion #get #going

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#go #go for it #heart #please #whatever

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#blame #control #decide #destiny #ecology

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#abuse #choice #good #had #sexually