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Ashley Judd

"When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my entire life telling everyone I was "OK, damn it." But when you surrender to the [uncomfortable] feelings, there are gifts on the other side: Allowing yourself to feel loneliness forces you to reach out. Letting yourself get angry gives you strength, energy and motivation."

Source : "Ashley's Secret Life". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. July 9, 2006.

Ashley Judd

#Motivation Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Giving Quotes

“This face. What is it like to wake up to this face?”
“If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory.”

Source : "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. I, 1938.
“Listening to Eric TaylorÂ is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes.”
“While it is a very hard and sometimes very cruel profession, my love for the bike remains as strong now as it was in the days when I first discovered it. I am convinced that long after I have stopped riding as a professional I will be riding my bicycle. I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life.”
“I was nominated for two Grammy's, but ... more importantly, I like it when I get a letter from someone ... a person that I've affected their lives or I've helped them. That's important to me. Someone will say "I was feeling bad and you helped me".”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“I would tell myself the same thing that I continue to tell myself today, which is don't sweat the small things.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat.”
“Colleges are a unique space in our culture. They're a temporary constellation of humans, like a workplace. And the rules about sexual assault and harassment in a workplace are narrow rules. They're stricter than what's considered criminal on a city street. By this logic, the same rules should exist at universities too.”

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