The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won’t get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center.
BELLAMY YOUNGIf I’m feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that’s a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.
More Bellamy Young Quotes
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I wouldn’t make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I’m processing things, what I’m processing, if I’m out of touch in some area.
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Notorious’ is a masterwork. I can watch it every day.
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There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.
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The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.
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It’s a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, ‘I get to play the First Lady.’ It’s just fun to say.
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The smallest act has repercussions for the universe.
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I foster a lot. Not humans, animals.
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I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.
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I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.
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My dad used to say, ‘Just be yourself and you’ll be fine,’ but it’s really, really true.
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That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we’re in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.
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Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.
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If I’m feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that’s a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.
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Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.
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You gotta love yourself, because when you’re hurting – you never know who’s gonna be around to do the lovin’ for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.
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