- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until you go through with it yourself, you simply can't imagine it. But it is the transition of going back to work and the guilt of how much time you spend with your child that's hard. I worry about not getting back in time for bath-time. I am not a neurotic person at all, but every time the mobile rings, my stomach leaps.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I'm a woman, and I'm petite and blonde, you wouldn't believe how often I'm asked to model the clothes.
- Nov 07, 2020
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Say what you want about Maroon 5 not making music like the kind found on 'Songs About Jane,' the fact remains that they know how to write a really good pop song that highlights lead singer Adam Levine's falsetto.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass and concrete fell down, when actually they took with them thousands of human lives? That is the actual tragedy. But those towers were almost human for me. I was in love with them, and that's why I married them with a tight rope.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.
- Constructing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020