“She wants love, she wants affection, wants someone to give her all the attention. She might be needy but she even deserves way more than she could ever want.”— Maram Rimawi, wnq-writers.com
“Doesn’t it scare you that you’ve wasted more than half of your life hating yourself? It should.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“There’s a notion I’d like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“It’s okay to be 18, and 22, and 29 and still not understand your worth because finally seeing it doesn’t happen overnight. It takes years of self-destructive relationships, and lonely mornings, and finally – a morning when you wake up and discover that you’re not lonely anymore.”— Courtney Dercqu, thoughtcatalog.com
“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, an…”— Ralph Ellison, amazon.com
“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”— T. Harv Eker, amazon.com
“So don’t sacrifice yourself, your self-worth, your sanity, and your respect, all in the name of holding onto someone who seems to love you only sometimes.”— Lacey Ramburger, thoughtcatalog.com
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.”— Harvey Fierstein, en.wikiquote.org
“I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it’s my head I’m locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.”— Alex Garland, amazon.com
“But I am somebody... I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.”— Louis L'Amour, amazon.com
“And she finds it difficult to believe — that a person would love her even when she isn’t trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com