I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!
Marilyn MonroeRead
I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the idea that one's value should not be seen as merely commercial or superficial.
Marilyn Monroe's quote suggests a rejection of viewing oneself as an object to be bought or sold, instead emphasizing the importance of personal identity and value that transcends material considerations. It hints at the pressures of societal perception and how individuals can be commodified, yet it encourages a deeper understanding of self-worth that is not dictated by external opinions or market dynamics.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about self-esteem at a personal development workshop.
I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!
I'm pretty, but not beautiful. _x000D_ I sin, but I'm not the devil. _x000D_ I'm good, but I'm not an angel.
My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)
I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.
A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.
Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.
I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.
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