“If we want others to speak well of us, we must first think well of ourselves.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Everything you need is within you. Just believe in yourself. Even when nobody else does.”— Cassey Ho, instagram.com
“Who would you be if you stopped defining yourself by the things that happened to you?”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.”— Anne Rice, Lestat, Tom Cruise, amazon.com
“In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.”— Bruce Lee, 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, twitter.com
“I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. I cannot be tossed about, or float gently, or mix with other people.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try t…”— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com
“And, here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.”— Jean Klein, amazon.com
“I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum.”— C. G. Jung, amazon.com