You can’t ask authentically and gracefully without truly being able to accept “No” for an answer. Because if you’re not truly willing to accept “No” for an answer, you’re not really asking, you’re demandingâ€Å–â€Åyou’re begging. At least, that’s how I’ve come to understand asking. Amanda Palmer
Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose...
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C. Joybell C.
I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
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J.B.S. Haldane
You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don't know it, all of that doesn't even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment...
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C. Joybell C.
Once you discover that you can, you must.
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Al Jarreau
What you believe you can receive if you doubt it you will do without it.
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JoCecelia Shinn
More Quotes By Amanda Palmer
Asking for help with shame
When we ask for anything, we're almost always asking for help, in some form; help with money, permission, acceptance, advancement, help with our hearts.. Brene Brown has found through her research that women tend to feel shame around the idea of being 'never enough'.. at...
And another local journalist wrote an op-ed wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far. Wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far? To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of understanding.
The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end
You can’t ask authentically and gracefully without truly being able to accept “No” for an answer. Because if you’re not truly willing to accept “No” for an answer, you’re not really asking, you’re demandingâ€Å–â€Åyou’re begging. At least, that’s how I’ve come to understand asking.
