Quote by Lina Andersson

“the way you speak of yourself the way you degrade yourself into smallness is abuse -self-harm”

— Rupi Kaur

“Some of us have been hiding, shrinking, betraying ourselves, faking the funk, and playing small for so long that we believe that we are…

— Abiola Abrams

“If he is weak enough to grow smaller to fit himself to his covering, then it becomes a process of gradual suicide by shrinkage…

— Tagore Rabindranath

“Stop shrinking yourself down for people who can’t even fit themselves into the boxes they’re trying to force you into.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink.”

— Mico Monsalve

“When we feel unworthy, we feel powerless. When we feel powerless, we shrink. When we shrink, we attract a match to that energy.”

— Anella Wetter

“Give yourself some grace, because being stripped down alone and having to navigate specific systems of power is a particular kind of violence that…

— Malebo Sephodi

“An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“You're trapped both ways. You do as you are told and you do things that you think will make you big, but all the…

— Helen Dunmore

“Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We…

— Kay Cassidy

“You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence…

— Iris Murdoch

“Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.”

— Nelson Mandela