Kirshenbaum Quotes

#1. A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained.

Binnie Kirshenbaum

#2. Be content to seem what you really are.

Marcus Aurelius

#3. ... whichever of my friends was and is sensitive, touchy even, had to choose... emigration... and I emigrated inwardly, here to the pub for example...

Bohumil Hrabal

#4. The source of so much of my anxiety in life and the tensions in my relationship is my anxiety about my kid. It's all very abstract and unfounded and ungrounded.

Lisa Cholodenko

#5. Love is richest, most genuine, and most long lasting when you focus on being yourself and doing everything you can to make it possible for the other person to be him- or herself.

Mira Kirshenbaum

#6. We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

Carre Otis

#7. There is drama in both kinds of love: the kind of love that makes you want to become a good person and the kind of love that makes you want to become a bad person.

Yokoyari Mengo

#8. The secret of confidence is focusing on what you can control, not on what you can't.

Mira Kirshenbaum

#9. Just as physical energy comes from diet, exercise and rest, emotional energy comes from the ways you take care of yourself emotionally
living in a way that makes you feel inspired, hopeful, self-confident, playful, loving and in touch with what you care about most.

Mira Kirshenbaum

#10. The only way to get better is to practice.

Jennifer L. Scott

#11. I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.

Binnie Kirshenbaum

#12. Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this is a time to ask yourself when good enough is enough and then stop.

Mira Kirshenbaum

#13. But when you personalize your life, when you make your life a place where you can be yourself, when you do things the way you want to do them, your life feels like your home. And that is a tremendous source of emotional energy.

Mira Kirshenbaum

#14. Things happen to help you get rid of the parts of yourself that aren't you; to help you be more real and more yourself, not like everyone else; to help you lead a more authentic life; and ultimately to help you discover who you really are.

Mira Kirshenbaum

#15. Your emotional energy only cares about how successful you are at being yourself.

Mira Kirshenbaum

#16. The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

Binnie Kirshenbaum

#17. What is left when honor is lost?

Publilius Syrus

#18. I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city.

Lil' Wayne

#19. I may not be perfect, but God knows I'm trying ... and God knowing should count for something.

Karen E. Quinones Miller

#20. Everyone does deserve a second chance, although we don't often get one, and even when we do get a second chance, we're likely to make the same mistake again. The things we learn later rather than sooner tend to result from harsh lessons, but mostly we learn nothing at all.

Binnie Kirshenbaum

#21. On April 3, 2014, Jane Goodall turned 80. The iconic blond ponytail has gone gray, but the sparkle of intelligence, sly humor, and fierce dedication still shines from her hazel eyes.

David Quammen

#22. I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go! I never thought of that, but that works,"...I think that true art is a universal reflection, and true artists are just messengers of that reflection or, at best, skilled presentors.

Serj Tankian