"It's impossible to feel good about yourself if……" — Ellen Bass
"It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire."
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16 Quotes by Ellen Bass
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There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into…
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Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.
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Exercise stimulates your circulation, massages your internal organs, stretches and strengthens your muscles, and energizes you. Exercise is also a…
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There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything…
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So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people…
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Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain.
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I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've…
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I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.
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I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
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Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from…
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Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's…
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to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles…
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More Admire Quotes
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
— Diane Ackerman
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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way…
— Richard Bach
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact…
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther…
— Dennis C. Blair
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
— David Bowie
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it…
— Samuel Butler
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