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“You are who you are when nobody's watching.”
― Stephen Fry

“We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever.
That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.”
― John Berger

“When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.”
― Drew Barrymore

“You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.”
― Avril Lavigne

“If my mind can conceive it,
My heart can believe it,
I know I can achieve it!”
― Jesse Jackson