When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.
Frank OceanDon’t be afraid to see what you see.
Ronald ReaganChanging is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.
Thich Nhat HanhI feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.
The WeekndWe are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.
Charles BukowskiThe difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.
Brene BrownTruth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘
LeBron JamesThe fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard ShawNo one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
Lady GagaDoing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.
Adam SandlerThe way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPeople like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.
Taylor SwiftBefore I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
Harper LeeIt may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.
J. R. R. TolkienA lot of good love can happen in ten years.
Jim CarreyThe foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
BuddhaWhat is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo MachiavelliWith fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
Marilyn MonroeLove begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.
Mother TeresaLittle by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.
Sunil ChhetriA noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGrief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark TwainThe prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.
Clint EastwoodWork out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
BuddhaI have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.
Alice WalkerThe hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI can be a cruel person.
Amy WinehouseEither you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.
Jim CarreyThe thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.
Maya AngelouAlmost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
Charles BukowskiGod has entrusted me with myself.
EpictetusThe nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
Albert CamusI enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.
Conor McGregorTo be social is to be forgiving.
Robert FrostThere are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Fyodor DostoevskyNo one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor RooseveltTo deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
Jimmy CarterI’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.
RihannaI never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Muhammad AliWe are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen HawkingIf you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.
Richard P. FeynmanAvoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Colin PowellYou might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.
Mr. TI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SocratesPeople always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.
The WeekndIf you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao TzuYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
Hermann HesseWe all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.
Tom BradyBoredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Eckhart TolleWe’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.
Jordan PetersonO love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJustice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Mahatma GandhiLove is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. MenckenFor me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.
LeBron JamesWhen you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.
John C. MaxwellLove does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James Baldwin