“Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didnt have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.” WorldMadeSelfProblemStrongAnswersOne ThingMy FamilyLaysScoreNightmareBellsTrumpetsSelf ReliantFamily Problems Author:Quincy Jones
“My ambition for station was always easily controlled. If the place came to me it was welcome. But it never seemed to me worth seeking at the cost of self-respect, or independence. My family were not historic; they were well-to-do, did not hold or seek office. It was easy for me to be contented in private life. An honor was no honor to me, if obtained by my own seeking.” IfsWellsSelfEasyMy OwnHonorCostOfficeAmbitionMy FamilyIndependenceSeekingWelcomeSelf RespectStationsControlledHistoricPrivate LifeMy Ambition Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“My intention for my life is to stay centered, and from that intention come my priorities: my son, my family, my job, my self. That then informs what kind of work I can take on. It's a balancing act, but a fun one.” KindI CanSelfJobsLife IsFunSonMy FamilyIntentionPrioritiesMy SonBalancing Act Author:Jewel
“My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to Sunday school with her. I was given this little pamphlet of tiny poems about the natural world, about butterflies and sunsets. My 7-year-old self was so astounded by how these few words were creating pictures and feelings in me.” WorldYearsLittlesSelfFeelingsSchoolHouseGivenParentNaturalChurchCreatingMy FamilyTinySunsetSundayButterflyNatural WorldFew WordsSunday SchoolOld SelfAstounded Author:Cheryl Strayed
“If you shift your mindset to asking "How can I initiate change that's good for my family, and my community, and my career, and my private self (mind, body and spirit)? then you are more likely to produce harmony in your life, over the course of your life.” IfsMindSelfBodySpiritCoursesCommunityCareersProduceMy FamilyHarmonyAskingMindsetInitiateMind BodyMind Body And Spirit Author:Stewart D. Friedman
“I go - I trace depression back to things. So I go, ok, I look back and I say my self-esteem was affected because of my skin and because my family had no money and I was ashamed of how poor I was. And I look at all of that and I was trying to hide myself. And so I felt like I was less than I was. And so that then leads to you being depressed. And I work on these things.” TryingLooksSelfFeltPoorSelf EsteemMy FamilySkinsEsteemAshamedAffectedNo MoneyBeing Depressed Author:Trevor Noah
“Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.” PeopleKnowsFeelsSelfHardHomeJobsLinesActingAudienceConsciousMy FamilyPerformancesDrawingOddCartoonGigsSelf ConsciousPresentingCollision Author:Dylan Moran
“We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.” ThinkingWritingArtSelfFactsDesireGamesWinningLostBehindsClassWrittenPaperMy FamilyLettersLeavingHardestSoccerNosesChairsPortraitsTerrifiedSaturdayHumiliationCheerfulEarnestDiariesDecreaseScrapBlandSelf PortraitArt Class Book:Prep: a novel Source: Prep: a novel
“I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it.” NeedsSelfEnoughNovelMy FamilyBoringGothicTalk To Me Author:Chaim Potok
“I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.” PeopleMindSelfStatesStuffMemoriesMy OwnSelf EsteemLowsMy FamilyEarsTownsNotesShipsEsteemState Of MindRatsLow Self EsteemTremblingScribblesFunny Stuff Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker of ideas sacred to Christians, a blasphemous manipulator of modes and forms revered by Gentiles for two thousand years.” PeopleYearsTwoIdeasSelfChristianFormNamesThousandMy FriendsMy FamilyShameSacredThousand YearsTraitorGentilesManipulator Book:My Name Is Asher Lev Source: My Name Is Asher Lev
“My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I'm with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.” FeelsSelfPlayCareersSpecialEffectsSelf EsteemMy FamilyEsteemMake Me Feel Special Author:Phil Mickelson