You can't truly love someone if you also love yourself, just as you can't love someone if you are not honest with them and they with you - otherwise it's just infatuation and desire. Benjamin Stone More Quotes by Benjamin Stone More Quotes From Benjamin Stone To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless. Love is willing to completely give up your life for someone, to make sacrifices and put them first. Benjamin Stone sacrifice giving-up love-is Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human. Benjamin Stone bad-things vulnerable humans The best thing about the world today is that everyone is connected and you can go online and quickly find people all over the world doing incredible things. Benjamin Stone today people world Being constantly surprised about what nature can create, that inspires me beyond belief. Benjamin Stone belief inspire I don't think I can get anywhere near to fully describing what love is. Benjamin Stone describing love-is thinking As an actor in-between jobs, it can be hard to stay motivated when you feel like you future is always in someone else's hands. You are always waiting for someone to look at you and say "YES." Benjamin Stone waiting jobs hands One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals. Benjamin Stone empowering goal self A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty. Benjamin Stone empty To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless. Benjamin Stone selfless passionate love-is For the longest time I have had so much belief and confidence in myself, which as an actor you need, because the entertainment industry is incredible competitive, brutal, and unpredictable just when you start to think you know what's going on. Benjamin Stone actors needs thinking Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning medical experiments that would normally take years can be digitally run taking only hours. Benjamin Stone powerful running years Successful people inspire me, and I don't mean just in their career but people who have amazing families, or who have made a difference, or followed their dreams. Benjamin Stone successful dream mean I am fortunate to have a lot of love in my life. I love my family, I love my dog, I love my close friends, and I absolutely love my incredible girlfriend. Benjamin Stone i-love-my-family girlfriend dog I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it. Benjamin Stone connections lucky love-is People who have come from nothing and started their own business or opened up a whole new niche in a particular industry, they truly inspire me. Benjamin Stone niche inspire people I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own. Benjamin Stone california waiting people My friends joke that I love planning things - which I do - and the reason is because there's so much I want to do, so many things I want to see and experience. If I don't actively pursue these things, I will never do everything I want to do, in life and in my career. That's what gets me up in the morning. Benjamin Stone careers want morning Getting up early and setting myself daily targets, even outside of acting, keeps me active and motivated in general and thus happier, which I hope translates into my personality and my work. Benjamin Stone up-early acting personality If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself. Benjamin Stone being-truthful truthful ifs When I was younger I could never get up in the morning, I always found it so difficult. If I had an appointment, I had no problem, but just getting up early for the sake of it was so hard, I just loved my bed (and still do!). Benjamin Stone up-early bed morning
