“If I now change my past, I will change who I am right now.”— Jantje Friese, Ronny Schalk, The Stranger, Andreas Pietschmann, imdb.com
“If you want to be faithful to someone or something, start by being faithful to yourself.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are, because things are changing fast.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self, and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my own heart.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“By pretending to be someone I was not, I had shown him my true self, one I had been too afraid to reveal to anyone else.”— Kalle Oskari Mattila, nytimes.com
“What does it mean to go after something, fail at it, become irrationally upset at failure, watch people no longer let you try that one thing because they’ve watched you fail at it, and then convince yourself it wasn’t worth going after?”— John Gorman, medium.com
“You have to abandon the empty, successful, shiny shell of a person you became in order to please your father, to win your selfish boyfriends, to gain your glamorous magazine jobs, and you have to look into the inky hot abyss of your soul and pull out this wretched, messy self that you fear.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“"Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground."”— Sierra Demulder, sierrademulder.tumblr.com
“Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don’t know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn’t you. That isn’t you at all.”— Leila Sales, amazon.com
“You're still very much yourself and nobody else. And you're forging ahead as yourself. So relax.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You’ll be free when you realise you don’t have to be, you weren’t meant to be and you’re not suppose to be ANYONE but you. Change, yes. But you’re made uniquely for a reason so be happy with who you are.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“We are often more harsh to ourselves than we ever would be with those we care about.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“It doesn’t really matter what others say about you—good or bad. Ultimately what really matters is what you believe about yourself that changes the way you feel, and how you live. So don’t wait for others to encourage you, start encouraging yourself today!”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“My point is, in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I try to pull myself together and pick up the scattered jigsaw puzzle pieces of me lying all around. This is a first, I think.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I'm safe inside this container called me. With a little click, the outlines of this being—me—fit right inside and are locked neatly away. Just the way I like it. I'm where I belong.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com