“Past twenty, not yet thirty In between, right there When I’m not a kid or an adult When I’m just me I shine the brightest So don’t get scared when darkness comes”— IU, G-Dragon, open.spotify.com
“Everyone is weird when you get to know them. No need to put on a mask. You'll only attract similarly masked people.”— Jordan Bach, twitter.com
“You can be American, Canadian, Isreali, or Iranian but no man can put a border around who you really are.”— Jim Carrey, twitter.com
“i don't care about being pretty anymore cuz physical ugliness doesn’t exist. we just assign negative meanings to certain traits and that's what's truly ugly, it’s how cruelly we treat ourselves and the traumas we inflict ourselves chasing illusions and impossible standards. i'm not saying i still wo…”— imanes, imanes.tumblr.com
“Freedom is just letting go of all the things I want everyone to notice about me.”— Chrissy Stockton, amazon.com
“You can’t keep changing yourself to please one guy. If he doesn’t love you for who you are, then he’s not worth it.w”— Jessica Brody, amazon.com
“I’m not afraid of my truth anymore, and I will not omit pieces of myself to make you more comfortable.”— Alex Elle, goodreads.com
“Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.”— Chelston W.D. Brathwaite, books.google.com.ph
“You’ve got to give yourself permission to not have the answers, to survive things going amiss, to exert less energy into bullshit, and trust you’ll be okay. This doesn’t mean become stagnant or coast in mediocrity, but find solace in relinquishing the idea of control. Simply do your best, and vow to…”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“Stop giving apologies you don’t owe. Rightfully take up space. Know you have something of value to add to the conversation. Know when to shush and just listen. Rustle feathers. Do more things that make you nervous. Do that thing people in your life won’t get but ultimately makes you feel fulfilled.…”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“We don’t have to morph into something disingenuous for the sake of appeasing others.”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“A fixation on being perceived as nice or ‘sooo chill’ is a colossal waste of time.”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.’”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“We are unique, let us be different, let us thrive in what is best for our soul.”— infpunite, infpunite.tumblr.com
“It’s okay to feel like a dandelion in a field of roses. Because some people will always see you as a weed and others will recognize you as a wish, but neither will be able to rid themselves of you. You will stay memorialized in their heads and their hearts forever because despite every attempt to de…”— L.A.L., writing-in-the-wings.tumblr.com
“Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.”— Robert Brault, goodreads.com
“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“This is something people refuse to admit to themselves: at a given point you can no longer do, but can only be and accept. And although that is something I learned a long time ago, I also learned that one can accept for oneself and not for others. This is vital, this is extremely vital. I could writ…”— Etty Hillesum, amazon.com