Y Quotes
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“You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.”
“You can be highly concentrated on a person, on a problem, and be so good at excluding all other material that that becomes not just the focus of your experience, but practically the sole content of your experience, everything else falling by the wayside.”
“You can be Hitler and go to confession and say forgive me, Father, I killed six million Jews, and the priest would just be like no problem. Say 10 Heil Marys. And Hitler goes to heaven.”
“You can be honest without sharing your opinions on everything.”
“You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty. Anti-Americanism, by which I mean a hatred for America as such-its transformation into a metaphysical category, which incarnates all the evil in the world-is one of fascism's favorite themes. Look at writer and political theorist Charles Maurras in France. The philosopher Martin Heidegger in Germany. The radical Islamists of today!”
“You can be humble without compromising your values.”
Source: Become a Better You
“You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.”
“You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.”
“You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.”
“You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.”
“You can be in friendship with people for a number of years without having them as your friends.”
“You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.”
“You can be in love and you can be in a relationship. But they’re not always the same thing.”
Source: I Wrote This For You
“You can be in love with solitude; it won’t last long! You can be in love with crowds; it won’t last long!”
“You can be in the public eye all the time and still have a private life, but the important thing is to keep in touch with the people who put you there.”
“You can be in the race but unless you finish one might say the race wasn't in you.”
“You can be in the storm, but don't let the storm get in you.”
Source: Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day
“You can be in the vanguard of those that bring a change to the community and to the nation as a whole.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.”
“You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.”
“You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence; self-made leaders do not look for followers. Followers look for them.”
“You can be insane today and become sane tomorrow, just give yourself some time to heal.”
“You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters thoughts with great understanding and depth.”
“You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.”
“You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.”
Source: Enchiridion
“You can be just as faithful to a place or a thing as you can to a person. A place can really make your heart skip a beat, especially if you have to take a plane to get there.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“You can be killed during a suicide attempt.”
“You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“You can be Kind and not be a Christian, but you can never be a Christian and not be Kind.”
“You can be known as Val or Babycakes.” His gaze darkened. “My name is Valerius and I will not answer to Val.” She shrugged. “Fine then, Babycakes, have it your way.”
Source: Seize The Night
“You can be labelled but if it doesn't speak to people then it won't work. The social media and online has been really important. Fans are really smart too: they don't want to hear something manufactured or something that has too much marketing behind it.”
“You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.”
“You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking around with lots of credit cards and be in a prison, the prison of your own mind, the prison of your illusions.”
“You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
“You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?”
Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality
“You can be man of great net worth.”
Source: Create Your Own Net Worth
“You can be maybe rented but never bought.”
“You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.”
“You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.”
“You can be Mitt Romney with three marriages and a disastrous speakership, kicked out of the speakership, being reprimanded by the House of Representatives and fined and all that stuff, it doesn`t matter if you sing the right tune with the right tone these days.”
“You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.”
“You can be more knowledgeable than someone, but be less intelligent or wise than them. Or foolish or stupid, unlike them.”
“You can be more prepared. You can be better overall. But sometimes fate just fucks you.”
Source: The Girl in Question
“You can be more than you are. That's the part that sneaks up on you, I think. That's what growing up is...becoming a greater version of yourself.”
Source: Superman: American Alien
“You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.”
“you can be my entire world.. if you want to”
Source: Love, Theoretically
“You can be naive when it comes to love, but don’t be stupid. Love with your whole heart, but keep your eyes open.”
“You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.”
“You can be, not too old, but too big for some clothes.”
“You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum