#ours

We spend our lives asking the question, ‘What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?’ But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#be-true-to-yourself #follow-your-heart #inner-voice #inspiration #motivation

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#burn #come #end #finished #happen

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#also #areas #been #dies #funny

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#human #literature #men #must #off

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#live #prove #revenge #yourself

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#amuse #cherish #friends #our #ours

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#god #humility #judge #judged #must

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#directed #god #rid #toward #yourself

I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#course #depicting #get #ground #i

It's nice to be liked, but it's better to be respected. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#inspirational #integrity #motivational #respect #respect-yourself