“yes, i have no friends, but at least i can always count on my social anxiety.”— Sade Andria Zabala, twitter.com
“someone: *looks at me for more than five seconds* me: this is the worst day of my life.”— dlubes, dlubes.tumblr.com
“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying, I don’t know how to speak to you. I don’t know what you’re thinking. Talk to me. Tell me everything you’ve ever said. All the words. Starting from the very first one.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“trying to convince myself i am allowed to take up space is like writing with my left hand when i was born to use my right.”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“Don’t sabotage yourself. There are enough people out there who’ll do it for you. Don’t let the assholes win.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“If you’re not grappling with self-doubt half the time, you’ve probably lost perspective. The confident ones give us the worst and most lifeless bullshit.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“One thing people overlook is that friends can be anywhere. They don’t have to have the same diet or music taste or politics as you. They don’t have to be your age or your color or your class... Making friends can be one of the scariest fucking things you’ll ever do, but once you have them they’ll he…”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“I'm not sure if people have become less interesting, or if I'm just less interested in people.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck up. You’re judgmental. When others can’t read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that’s true to who we are.”— Sophia Dembling, amazon.com
“Dear friend, You are not a freak. You are wanted. You are necessary. You are the only you there is. Don’t be afraid to leave the castle. It’s a great big world out there.”— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com
“FACT: I am not as bad as other people made me out to be... And nobody else is capable of loving me as honestly as I can myself.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act”— Caroline Caldwel, twitter.com
“Sometimes it’s not the pain that makes you suffer. It’s your own negative thoughts that make it worse.”— hairosebear, hairosebear.deviantart.com
“Sometimes people just don't want to play with you, and that's okay.”— Suzanne Warren, rollingstone.com
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”— Dale Carnegie, amazon.com
“Focus on the conversation and the people in the social situation. Do not focus on your own feelings, symptoms or performance, especially do not focus on what you think others are thinking about you.”— Angel Greene, amazon.com