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“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”
― Diane Von Furstenberg

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”
― Marvin Gaye

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.”
― Karen E. Quinones Miller

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
― Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit”
― E.E. Cummings

“I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
― Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.”
― Richelle Mead, Succubus Revealed

“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.”
― Bryce Courtenay

“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.”
― Bette Davis

“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will”
― Jack Welch

“Tis in ourselves that we are thus
or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which
our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant
nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up
thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or
distract it with many, either to have it sterile
with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the
power and corrigible authority of this lies in our
wills. If the balance of our lives had not one
scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the
blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us
to most preposterous conclusions: but we have
reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that
you call love to be a sect or scion.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Try giving up all the thoughts that make you feel bad, or even just some of them, and see how doing that changes your life. You don't need negative thoughts. All they have ever given you was a false self that suffers. They are all lies.”
― Gina Lake, What About Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”
― Henry Stanley Haskins

“If I am not for myself who is for me?”
― Hillel Danziger