"We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but youn..."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back."
- Criss Jami
"Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability"
- Karl Lagerfeld
"Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy."
- Petar Dunov
"If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could."
- Emma Donoghue
"One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else."
- K.L. Toth
"The square root of I is I."
- Vladimir Nabokov
"Let not the rash marble riskgarrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence,in many words recallingname, renown, events, birthplace.All those glass jewels are best left in the dark.Let not the marble say..."
- Jorge Luis Borges
"You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining."
- N.K. Jemisin
"I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong. I want to be liked by more people, I want to be held in higher regard than others. I want to feel va..."
- Dave Matthes