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.
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.
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I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don’t want to take anybody else’s work with me.
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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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Notorious’ is a masterwork. I can watch it every day.
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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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I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.
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I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you’re an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.
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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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Love is a true unconditional space to me. To love someone or to be loved is to be seen, and I think, gosh, as humans, all we want is to be seen, to be heard, right? To be valued. To be respected. But mostly just to be held in a safe, unconditional space.
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I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in.
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From the fear and constriction that’s sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.
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The smallest act has repercussions for the universe.
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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.
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I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.
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Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don’t want to drag anything in there that doesn’t need to be there.
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There’s a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.
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