I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!
Marilyn MonroeRead
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
Interpretation
Fear and regrets are unnecessary obstacles that prevent us from living fully.
Marilyn Monroe's quote highlights the futility of being paralyzed by fear and the burden of holding onto regrets. By calling fear and regrets 'stupid', she urges us to let go of these constraints in order to embrace life more boldly and without hesitation, suggesting that life's richness comes from overcoming these limitations.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage students to pursue their dreams, this quote can remind them to overcome fear and move past regrets.
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.
We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.
In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.
Go beyond everything. Don't collect anything. _x000D_ A king does not need to go shopping in his own _x000D_ kingdom. Nor does he beg. _x000D_ Remember, you are the inner reality-pure awareness only. _x000D_ All that arises are appearances in consciousness. _x000D_ Don't bother with all that. Rest only as the awareness. _x000D_ This is the secret.
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