Bonnie St. John Quotes

You have the strength to push back against what others are making you think or do. You use that muscle of confidence. In the same way, joy is from the inside out, and not letting the things on the outside define you.

Bonnie St. John

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Old

• I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thoughts
  • Presence
  • Studying

• I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Club

• My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Love
  • Best

• I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Just
  • Consistent

• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Me

• Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • High
  • Pretty

• My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

  

  Ian Harding
  • School
  • History
  • High

• When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Movie
  • Same

• Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Winning
  • Process
  • Just

• My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Important
  • Long
  • Positive

• I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Think
  • Day
  • Outdoor

• I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Women
  • Strong

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • See
  • Genius
  • Seed

• I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Problem

• The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.

  

  Kate Klise
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Wall

• Christ may have lost his faith for a few seconds; He did not sell it in the marketplace for the trinkets of ego and curiosity.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • May
  • Faith
  • Lost

• If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • Live
  • May
  • Earth

• There's nothing wrong with wanting to be the best, but when it takes over the joy in the moment, and the joy in the journey, then that's where there's an internal tension. And I have to surrender that.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • Joy
  • Journey

• I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
  • See
  • Causality

• My phone is all ping-ping, eBay alerts.

  

  Margherita Missoni

• You have the strength to push back against what others are making you think or do. You use that muscle of confidence. In the same way, joy is from the inside out, and not letting the things on the outside define you.

  

  Bonnie St. John
  • Joy
  • Confidence
  • Strength