“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
“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
“Don’t wait for it,’ I said. ‘Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened up to me.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing [or] person… Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“If I have learned anything over this last year it’s that you have to live your own life too so that if something we hoped for doesn’t work out, you still have two legs to stand on, you still have your own path.”— T.S. Krupa, amazon.com
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you’ll catch up.”— Natsuki Takaya, amazon.com
“That’s the hardest part, you know? In a society where everyone else’s opinions matter, putting yourself first is one of the hardest things for a woman to do. But you’ve got to do it, love. You have to grab your own life by the horns and trust your gut.”— Alyssa Rae, wnq-writers.com
“Be willing to go alone! Many who started with you won't finish with you.”— Tony Gaskins Jr., twitter.com
“Nobody can save you but yourself—and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning—this is it.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance... You have no choice but to accept things as they are, or to seriously seek something else… But you say, ‘I don’t know where to look; I don’t know what to look for.‘ And there’s the crux. Is it wor…”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.”— Douglas Coupland, amazon.com