#yours

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#speak #yourself

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#got #you #yourself

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. ↗

— June Jordan

#become #begin #love #love yourself #most

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes. ↗

— June Jordan

#anyway #as far as #attitude #been #damage

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#expect #them #things #you #yourself

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#because #downs #effort #focus #game

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#competition #day #every #every day #go

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

#burn #completely #good #leaving #like

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#amazement #recollection #write #yourself

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

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