Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
~ Willie Nelson
It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.
~ Taylor Lautner
You have to really understand that although certain memories or stories make you sad, you are not sad. Pull yourself out from that emotion and remember that.
~ Rupi Kaur
As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.
~ Charlie Kaufman
It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
~ Natalie Imbruglia
You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it's all a part of you somewhere.
~ Riley Keough
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
~ Greta Garbo
It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
~ David Harris
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
~ Linus Torvalds
Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology.
~ Astro Teller
We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we'd custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one's individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you've probably never done before.
~ David Agus
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
~ Wayne Dyer
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
~ Saint Teresa Of Avila
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
~ Phillips Brooks
My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'
~ Katee Sackhoff
Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What did you do to yourself?' I was so embarrassed.
~ Ashley Tisdale
It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.
~ Jillian Michaels
When I first got into the entertainment industry, I would always watch Rihanna and all those people, so I was like, 'Ooh, I have to be this.' So my mom was like, 'Just be yourself.'
~ Willow Smith
Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.
~ Tricia Helfer
Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.
~ Toni Braxton
Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.
~ Brooke Burke
We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.
~ Moon Unit Zappa
There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain - do something to make more money yourself.
~ Gina Rinehart
Just take yourself back to September 2001. As that month went on, and as that autumn unrolled, everybody wanted to do something. How can I help? Do you want my blood? Do you want money for the victims? I was a captain in the Marine Corps. I knew what I could do. I was right there. I was ready. I saw it. I moved the rubble with my own hands.
~ Rob Riggle
When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!
~ Paul Mccartney
It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.
~ Billy Idol
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.
~ Josephine Baker
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
~ Aldous Huxley
You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
~ Tammy Faye Bakker
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
~ Bryant H. Mcgill
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
~ John Wooden
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
~ Walt Disney
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
~ Lao Tzu
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
~ Saadi
If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.
~ Will.i.am
A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.
~ John Rampton
Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.
~ Boy George