“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“The idea of Original Sin—of guilt where there is no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives available—is anti-self-esteem by its very nature. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as well as on morality.”— Nathaniel Branden, amazon.com
“It does not count if you believe in yourself when it's easy to believe in yourself. It counts when it's hard to believe in yourself, when it looks like the world's going to end and you've still got a long way to go. That's when it counts.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca
“Perhaps the fact that I chased a boy who ripped me to shreds says a lot more about me than it did about him.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“I'm not good at relationships I always manage to find the flaws sometimes in others but mostly my own. I foretell the ending then go and create the cause save myself and end up alone.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they’re your parents. Because, if you’re the kind of person who senses there’s something out there for you beyond whatever it is you’re expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by…”— Kelly Cutrone, amazon.com
“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us.”— André Gide, amazon.com
“Don’t get mad. Don’t get even. Do better. Much better. Rise above. Become so engulfed in your own success that you forget it ever happened.”— Donald Driver, goodreads.com
“Truly powerful people don’t explain why they want respect. They simply don’t engage someone who doesn’t give it to them.”— Sherry Argov, goodreads.com