“Having needs and expectations doesn’t make me difficult or some insatiable monster.”— Martine Thompson, vogue.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
“Stay away from people who make you feel like you aren’t worth their time.”— Unknown, deeplifequotes.com
“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“She was afraid to want things for herself. She didn’t think she deserved them.”— Susan Choi, amazon.com
“But let this be your honour: always to love more than you are loved and never to be second in this.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.”— Abraham Hicks, goodreads.com
“Do not mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything yourself.”— Henry James, 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 opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.”— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, amazon.com
“I am hard on myself. But isn’t it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn’t it better to break it yourself?”— Stephanie Perkins, amazon.com
“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
“It takes a strong person to do their own thing and not wait for anybody else to validate their existence.”— Steven Aitchison, goodreads.com
“Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.”— Jennifer Elisabeth, amazon.com
“Stop giving people power to control your smile, your worth, and your attitude.”— Mandy Hale, goodreads.com