I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.
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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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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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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I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.
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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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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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I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree.
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The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.
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I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.
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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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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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My dad used to say, ‘Just be yourself and you’ll be fine,’ but it’s really, really true.
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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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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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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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