“I hate smiling in public...... can't let these bitches know that I'm a happy pers”— BretmanRock, twitter.com
“We must accept our existence in as wide a sense as can be; everything, even the unheard-of, must be possible within it.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“A special contribution of Zen to Eastern thought was its recognition of the mundane as of equal importance with the spiritual. It held that in the great relation of things there was no distinction of small and great, an atom possessing equal possibilities with the universe. The seeker for perfection…”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that ‘unless you love yourself, no one else will love you’ …The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in…”— Bruce D. Perry, amazon.com
“Both. I want to stay. I want to leave. I am three oceans away from my soul.”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com
“Do not call me perfect, a lie is never a compliment. Call me an erratic, damaged and insecure mess. Then tell me that you love me for it.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“I’ve stopped being sorry for all my soft. I won’t apologize because I miss you, or because I said it, or because I text you first, or again. I think everyone spends too much time trying to close themselves off. I don’t want to be cool or indifferent, I want to be honest.”— Azra T., 5000letters.tumblr.com
“It’s just sort of a thankful feeling – that I’m alive and that people are glad I am . There’s nothing to say – you know everything about me, and that’s mostly what I think about – I seem always curiously interested in myself, and it’s so much fun to stand off and look at me”— Zelda Fitzgerald, 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
“Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It’s self-destruction.”— Bobby Sommer, goodreads.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
“Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com