"It is a very wonderful experience indeed, when, at fifty years old, you suddenly discover that for the first time in your life, you are really free to be yourself."

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Source : Monica Baldwin (1949). “I leap over the wall: a return to the world after twenty-eight years in a convent”, Hamish Hamilton

Monica Baldwin

#Being Yourself Quotes #Years Quotes #Fifty Quotes

“In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues that would come together as soon as the ceremony was over.”
“[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external thingsâ€”property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his automobile are a part of him and a large part of him. This is beautifully demonstrated by a thing doctors knowâ€”that when a man loses his possessions a very common result is sexual impotence.”
“I've seen a lot of people - for example, Lindsay Lohan - who got into the wrong crowd. I always have my eye on what I want. And I don't want anything to distract me from that.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Well, I know from some of my own experience, and many of my friends' experiences, when going through that sort of program. The whole addiction game really forces you to focus on what brings you there and accept the only way out. So once you really put this focus on getting better and figuring out what your flaws are, that's what brings you back. I think she could've been more reckless and shown up earlier, but I wasn't really available to come back.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.”
“I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!”
“Never let a short term desire get in the way of a long term goal.”
“You never know what you can do until you have to do it.”

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