“The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.”— Victor Hugo, amazon.com
“There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com
“The truth is that I am not one of those who find their satisfaction in one person, or in infinity.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.”— Dawn French, amazon.com
“We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others.”— John Lennon, goodreads.com
“Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.”— Tyler Kent White, amazon.com
“I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.”— Louis L'Amour, 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
“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
“We may not be aware of it, but we are constantly changing our loyalties. The external self claims us at work or enjoying ourselves at a party or buying a new house. The private self claims us in matters of the heart, in moments of depression and anxiety, and in our family life. The unconscious self…”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.”— Osho, facebook.com