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.
Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.
It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.
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The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.
Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!
I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed...
You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.
I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to...
If you at any point forget that Wookiees aren't real, it's time to come up for air.
No matter what the situation you're in, if you're raised in a loving environment, that's the most important thing.
The great thing about a parallel-dimensions story is that you can literally never run out of plot.
It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your...
I believe being a true Global Citizen means you have the willingness and openness to step outside of your own boundaries, and I'm honored to represent that with TUMI.
When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.
As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the...
How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life.
There are two worlds out there - two Americas out there. If you're a white person, there's one way of being a citizen in our country, and if you're a brown or a black body, there's another way of being...
I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.
When you're writing, you think: How does intimacy happen in the work? You don't know who your reader is, woman, man, child, black person, Asian, who knows?
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Some entries trace how writers describe characters who feel more alive than the people around them, while others explore the quiet unease of being tracked and observed in everyday life. Pair this page with Life Quotes or Love Quotes for more reflective reading.
