I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!
Marilyn MonroeRead
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
Interpretation
Self-awareness can be limiting, and a bit of self-confidence can help us navigate challenges.
Marilyn Monroe's quote suggests that while self-awareness is important, knowing oneself too well can be burdensome. The need for a degree of conceit or self-confidence is highlighted as a necessary trait that allows individuals to overcome difficulties and face the challenges of life with resilience.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles.
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.
I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.
What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.
Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.
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