Quote by Goethe

“If you’re honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“It’s a juvenile display, the whole act, and pathetic; but it’s something I understand.”

— Margaret Atwood

“...when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.”

— Nuala O'Faolain

“I tell myself now, that ever since I was little my sense of social decency has been more developed than my sense of death.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“When a person puts on a show, trying to appear great, their mediocrity is soon exposed.”

— Lao Tzu

“I have an extremely low threshold for disorder; it offends my very being.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“feel myself light up, like I do every time I hear an outside assessment of how I seem.”

— Kayla Rae Whitaker

“Whats the point in being grown up when you cant act childish sometimes?”

— Natalie Repinski

“Sometimes I act a lot older than I am – I really do – but people never notice it. People never notice anything.”

— J.D. Salinger

“But don’t be worried: in youth everybody is too quick to judge. It takes a little experience not to judge, not to judge superficially…

— Osho

“If I don’t read at least one bad thing about myself every day I take a long look at my behaviour and try harder…

— Sarah Morgan

“If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.”

— Barbara Ehrenreich