For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever…

“It is important to know when to tune out of people, and when to tune into yourself.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No words were…

— Agnes Chew

“You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still alive and…

— Agnes Chew

She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply…

— Sharon Maas

“As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster.…

— Nic Sheff

“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when…

— Rudyard Kipling

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.

— Bohdi Sanders

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this…

— Lady GaGa

“Nature has a relish for knowing secrets and hearing news. It wishes to appear abroad and to have sense experiences. It wishes to be…

— Thomas à Kempis

“She found that the whole world could be contained in one place because that place was herself. Nothing had prepared her for this.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart…

— David McRaney

“Self-assurance reassures others.”

— Garry Willis

“Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you are going to be successful in creating the life of your dreams, you have to believe that you are capable of making…

— Anonymous

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.

— Don Henley