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 YOUNGMy dad used to say, ‘Just be yourself and you’ll be fine,’ but it’s really, really true.
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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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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The smallest act has repercussions for the universe.
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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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Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.
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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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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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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 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 foster a lot. Not humans, animals.
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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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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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Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.
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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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The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.
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