“I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me”— Muhammad Ali, dakrolak.tumblr.com
“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know you, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but you for your happiness, you will realize that a little loneliness goes a long way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibran…”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.”— Victoria Moran, amazon.com
“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”— Eoin Colfer, amazon.com
“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence.”— David Nicholls, amazon.com
“If you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”— Michael J. Fox, books.google.com
“If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them. I want to be one of me.”— Craig Ferguson, amazon.com
“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“The thing about this is that sculptures like these in art history were for the male gaze. Photoshop a phone to it and suddenly she’s seen as vain and conceited. That’s why I’m 100% for selfie culture because apparently men can gawk at women but when we realize how beautiful we are we’re suddenly ful…”— Kim Kiyun, rosalarian.tumblr.com
“When I take up space, please know: it will not be on your terms... If there are worse things plaguing the earth in dire need of attention, perhaps it isn't on me to transfix you elsewhere.”— Orooj-e-Zafar, facebook.com