If It Was You Quotes

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

Who you are is love. What love does is heal.

You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.

Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.

The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.

You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."

If you don't get on the field and play then you will be missing out.

Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.

Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of the holy books.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Even my husband is happier when I'm happy. He has always said, "You figure out what you want to do," because he's discovered that personal happiness is connected to everything.

I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'

When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!

When I had troubles, I'd go out - with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize.

When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.

If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

You know, what can I say. If a relationship can't work out, make a record.

Maybe I am too traditional, but men feel important when you ask for their help instead of thinking you can do it all on your own.

I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

Not everything that nearly kills you makes you stronger. Sometimes it just makes you hate yourself for being so easily wounded yet unable to die.

Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

You were one person, and you changed the world.

What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself.

It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.

Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you.

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.

No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.

The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.

No matter where you are now, whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve.

Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.

I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

Don't write poems to make girls like you, because it will not make them like you but it will give them something to quote back at you later in life.

The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.

I'm bout that fast money, money ain't got no patience. But if them boys come run like you on probation.

You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.

Life is about doing the things that make you happy, not the things that please other people. If you can please other people, that's a plus, but as long as you're not hurting anyone, you're golden.

I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.

I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.

Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.

Forget you are a man. Loose the animal you hide inside.

Why did you choose to stay here?" (...) "I don't know," he said. "It's as if there's more oxygen here.

Even if you didn't come to meet me, I'm just going to like you.

You were the best thing in my life … I did love you. I do. As much as I’ve ever loved anyone, as much as I can. It feels like a lot – it takes up my whole heart.