“Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.”— Tom Clancy, amazon.com
“I may turn out an intellectual, but I’ll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.”— Adelaide Anne Procter, amazon.com
“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.”— Sidney Sheldon, amazon.com
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“I understand that nobody understands me, but I can’t be someone I’m not.”— Audrey Tautou, telegraph.co.uk
“I just want to be me - I just want to be useful and… content. I want to stop wondering if I’ll ever feel whole and just be whole. I want to have a purpose, one that I can look at without feeling I’m less than I was.”— Ellis O'Neal, amazon.com
“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”— Fred Rogers, amazon.com
“The biggest lesson I’ve learned is, ‘It’s okay.’ It’s okay for me to be kind to myself. It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to get mad. It’s okay to be flawed. It’s okay to be happy. It’s okay to move on.”— Hayley Williams, huffingtonpost.com
“I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“I feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.”— Alber Elbaz, independent.co.uk
“Some won’t appreciate you no matter how much you do for them. Release yourself. Go where you’re appreciated and understood.”— Robert Tew, goodreads.com