#ourself

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#always #arms #close #find #holding

I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#basically #best #best way #doing #i

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone. ↗

— Kate Bush

#alone #awful #because #deal #friends

The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#fit #happy #hardest #i #i think

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.' ↗

— David Byrne

#call #civic #distance #doing #engagement

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#act #aloud #courageous #most #still

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be. ↗

— Eileen Caddy

#down #from time to time #go #go away #important

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. ↗

— William Feather

#certainly #difficult #here #inspiration #intelligent

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself. ↗

— James Cameron

#cause #doubt #listen #many #more

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#erratic #forward #gentle #growth #movement