Sentence examples for tell yourself with from inspiring English sources

By the time you've entered restless adolescence, you may already be thinking of Long Island exclusively in terms of cheap irony: this, you tell yourself with what you imagine as a wry smile, is a place that honors Walt Whitman by naming a shopping mall after him.

"This can't be too difficult," you tell yourself with a smile in the same way you tell yourself, "It's not damaging to drink eight cups of coffee a day" or "There are plenty of tenure-track jobs".

“The majority of men live without being thoroughly conscious that they are spiritual beings.” Then tell yourself, “With spirit, all things are possible.” Now what does that leave out?

You could tell yourself that with booming technology — and innumeracy — you'll have an increasingly important role to play.

Do you put them all in storage and tell yourself you'll deal with them later?

You know why you are there so you tell yourself to get on with it.

Tell yourself it's almost done with but to stick with being nice for the remainder of the time.

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly.

Instead, with the Stoics in his suitcase, and advice on how to apply them clattering on to his keyboard as he typed, he became aware "that so much of it is about the story that you tell yourself, being in the moment with it, and not trying to control things you can't control.

If it's not good, don't tell yourself it is good, stay with it until it is.

Or you tell yourself, "I have back luck with love" and shuffle through woman after woman because you had your heart broken at 22.