“Live like nature. Explode slowly, day by day, from the center outwards. You won’t notice how brightly you burn or how big you’ve grown until you look back. And then you will be amazed.”— pleasefindthis (Iain Thomas), amazon.com
“You are responsible to no one and to nothing, except to yourself and to the truth as you see it.”— Chaim Potok, amazon.com
“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com
“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.”— Chaim Potok, amazon.com
“What do you mean I have to wait for someone’s approval? I’m someone. I approve. So I give myself permission to move forward with my full support!”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com
“Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.”— Andrea Gibson, issuu.com
“You have a masterpiece inside you, too, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. And remember: If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.”— Gordon MacKenzie, amazon.com
“You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.”— Audre Lorde, amazon.com
“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”— Anaïs Nin, en.wikiquote.org
“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.”— Alice Walker, goodreads.com
“I want you to know that it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my chest is a field full of landmines, and where you went last night, you can’t go tomorrow. There is no manual, there is no road map, no help line you can call; my body does not come with instructions, and sometimes even I don…”— Ivan E. Coyote, youtube.com
“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind and emotions.”— Will Smith, goodreads.com
“I go through phases. Some days I feel like the person I’m supposed to be, and then some days I turn into no one at all. There is both me and my silhouette. I hope that on the days you find me and all I am are darkened lines, you still are willing to be near me.”— Mary Kate Teske, goodreads.com