#yourself

Not everything in life has to be about finding “The One.” Sometimes a girl just wants to have fun. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#dating #enjoying-life #finding-love #fun #love

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ↗

— Judy Garland

#else #first-rate #instead #second-rate #somebody

In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves. ↗

— D.B. Harrop

#life-lessons #respecting-others #respecting-yourself #thoughts-on-life #life

Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces...where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle. ↗

— Witold Gombrowicz

#intellect #intelligence #thinking-for-yourself #freedom

You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family. ↗

— Louie Anderson

#enough #family #funny #honest #i

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#being #empowerment #every #feeling #friend

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#anybody #crowd #even #feel #huge

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

#age #cannot #dependence #indulging #old

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less. ↗

— Richard Armour

#eating #help #helping #less #more

I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on. ↗

— Jane Asher

#done #enjoy #enormously #experts #fun