That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pre...
What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on t...
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician
You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.
At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.
Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive
Working on yourself will reveal a new image of yourself
Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.
[H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vowels and less mincing sounds. His body was long and lean and trim; he had American hips, ready for a...
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.
I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter.
It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable
If it is true, as God says, that we are as we think, we risk becoming what we most fear if our fear is stronger than our love.
It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one's self back in that kind of mood, but I do see it; I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we use...
You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way o...
A diminished self-image will cause you to slouch, to avoid meeting others, to avoid looking others in the eye, to be unassertive, and to be indecisive.
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
From the dream to mainstream...Do whatever is necessary to make your dream a reality. To get others to invest in you and your dreams you must be willing to invest in yourself.
I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. Probably I never would have had any trouble at all if I hadn't run into Brett when they shipped me to...