Quotes About Self-permission

Only I can give myself permission to rest or to overachieve, to pace myself or to run at the pace others expect of me.

I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.

Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you.

by some obscure process of logic, she felt that her momentary burst of generosity had justified all previous extravagances, and excused any in which she might subsequently indulge.

I'm convinced the dreams we have for ourselves go unattained from a lack of permission more than any deficit in talent or desire. And I'm going to stress again that when I say "permission," I mean the permission we withhold or give ourselves to pursue those dreams.

After Duras wrote Lol Stein, she made a curious remark - she said that she gave herself permission to speak 'in a sense totally alien to women'. I know what she means. It is so hard to claim our desires and so much more relaxing to mock them.

If you have space for a flawed person to do great things and succeed, you give yourself the same permission. On a human level, we are all flawed. On a divine level, we are all perfect.

Now I only have one rule. Before I do anything I ask, Is it okay? Because I'm an American woman and they don't expect me to act like a Hmong anyway, they usually give me plenty of leeway.

I feel a kind of permission and freedom in my work that I might not allow myself in my real life.

What we mentally refuse to permit others, we refuse ourselves. What we bless in others, we draw to us.

One of the biggest obstacles to making lots of money is not a lack of good ideas or opportunities or time, or that we're too slovenly or stupid: it's that we refuse to give ourselves permission to become rich.

I had a lot of guilt as a single mother trying to raise a child. I had to go to work and Jeffrey was screaming that he didn't want me to. You have to give yourself permission to let go of the guilt.

Sometimes as an actor, it's really hard to give yourself permission to take your time and move slowly and not feel like you're holding people up or you should be going faster.

Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events as permission slips to execute your feeling agenda.

cada cual llega hasta donde puede y los demás le dejan y a ti se te permite vivir, ¿te parece poco?

I cannot be comprehended except by my permission

Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.