Stop Bending Over Backwards Quotes & Sayings

When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through. — Rabindranath Tagore

For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every time you see him, you only make yourself vulnerable to further heartache. Do you really need further proof that he's getting on with his life without you? — Greg Behrendt

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing. — Aaron Stanford

Your body is of no more value than that of John. — Swami Vivekananda

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about. — Kenneth Koch

Allow yourself to celebrate your sense of freedom , your capacity to make a choice and your strength in facing the truth. Not everyone has the courage to do so, even if it hurts ... ... Knowing is KEY to acceptance. — Abby Espiritu

Presume not that I am the thing I was. — William Shakespeare

I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of. — Peter Hook

People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. — Marianne Williamson

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents. — Anne-Marie Duff

People who behave rarely make history. — Josh Linkner

It was a long story and the spirt which moved it was the spirit of man's freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. that is freedom. This and nothing else.
~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pg 101 — Ayn Rand