#yours

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

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#around #big #big enough #brain #come

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#eyes #others #see #sometimes #through

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#culture #even #fatigue #found #more

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#any #beauty #beginning #correction #doing

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#because #i #ignore #in the past #live

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were. ↗

— Richard Bach

#come #free #if you love someone #love #never

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost. ↗

— Richard Bach

#be happy #happy #important #life #lost

Sometimes you can do things for people other than yourself. ↗

— Sebastian Bach

#people #sometimes #than #things #you

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved. ↗

— Russell Baker

#age #beloved #confessing #else #fashion