I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.
Bellamy YoungI feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.
Bellamy YoungThat is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.
Bellamy YoungLove is a true unconditional space to me. To love someone or to be loved is to be seen, and I think, gosh, as humans, all we want is to be seen, to be heard, right? To be valued. To be respected. But mostly just to be held in a safe, unconditional space.
Bellamy YoungIt's a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, 'I get to play the First Lady.' It's just fun to say.
Bellamy YoungI have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in.
Bellamy YoungFrom the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.
Bellamy YoungThere's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.
Bellamy YoungThere are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.
Bellamy YoungI used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.
Bellamy YoungI get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.
Bellamy YoungMy dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.
Bellamy YoungYou gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.
Bellamy YoungI'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.
Bellamy YoungI think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.
Bellamy YoungI wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.
Bellamy YoungSleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.
Bellamy YoungNothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.
Bellamy YoungIf I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.
Bellamy YoungThe pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.
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