#yours

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. ↗

— Tony Dorsett

#bend #cruel #decide #either #everything

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#actually #becomes #choosing #close #experience

I'm happiest on set because I'm not myself. I'm someone else. The moustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of double, and it's liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself... all those doubts. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#because #being #dinner #double #doubts

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#being #cover #covering #depths #forty

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#children #feel #find #found #good

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#absolute #act #always #decisions #great

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#else #every #eyes #golden #keep

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out? ↗

— Ian Wallace

#inspirational #love-yourself #inspirational

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#angry #cannot #make #others #since

We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not. ↗