The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

~ Michel De Montaigne

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Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.

~ Hugo Hamilton

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Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

~ Benjamin Spock

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I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

~ Criss Jami

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Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

~ Criss Jami

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But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

~ Howard Zinn

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Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

~ Terry Pratchett

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Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

~ Zadie Smith

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The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.

~ Howard Zinn

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It's okay to look different, Lilith. Beauty is only a matter of opinion. If you believe you are beautiful, then that's all that matters. These are really tough years you're approaching now. Your decisions now as a teenager can change your entire life. Just make sure you talk to me or comeone if you're ever feeling like life is too much to handle. And never let anyone convince you that you're not worthy, only to take advantage of you.

~ Penelope Ward

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It's okay to look different, Lilith. Beauty is only a matter of opinion. If you believe you are beautiful, then that's all that matters. These are really tough years you're approaching now. Your decisions now as a teenager can change your entire life. Just make sure you talk to me or someone if you're ever feeling like life is too much to handle. And never let anyone convince you that you're not worthy, only to take advantage of you.

~ Penelope Ward

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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 vivid in your mind – almost real – and the reality of your new circumstances has yet to fully sink in. You listen to the familiar melodies that had accompanied you on your journey, and allow the music to evoke landscapes and scenes in your mind. The songs caress your sub-consciousness and fill your being with an airy joy. You are both here and elsewhere. Or perhaps you are everywhere and nowhere.

~ Agnes Chew

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Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No words were exchanged beyond the brief lines uttered to this nameless stranger, whose inclinations remained unclear. The car sped along empty roads and traversed dingy alleyways. Music blared from its speakers. I did not remember exhaling throughout the entire journey.

~ Agnes Chew

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Confidence is always the best accessory. Own the moment. Own your space.

~ Andrena Sawyer

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I’m turned on by women who are comfortable in their own skin, and I’m turned off by those who are uncomfortable in their own shoes.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.

~ Annie Bryant

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A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

~ Sylvia Plath

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Self-love, self-confident and self-determination.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.

~ Gillian Flynn

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And here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.

~ James Baldwin

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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

~ Marcus Aurelius

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In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

~ Flannery O'connor

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Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

~ Nina García

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Your self-assurance scares me.’'That’s only because you don’t have any.

~ Marianne Curley

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Projecting an air of self-assurance will take you a long way.

~ Auliq Ice

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If you have no competition there's no need to debate.

~ T.f. Hodge

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The only way you will ever be free is when you decide you have had enough of living up to the standards other people force upon you through shame. Never wear their chains of judgment when they can’t break free of their own.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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Sometimes you just know... And then it doesn't even seem scary. Just certain and joyful. Like a deep stream, flowing steady and strong, jumping and splashing and churning as it passes around and over the land in which it is grounded. And for this knowing, and flowing, I am grateful.

~ Vashti Lsc

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Doubt quit stopping by when I started staying out late, dancing in a flood of self assurance discovered when holding your hand.

~ Taylor Patton

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We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart choice the last time we bought it.

~ David Mcraney

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Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

~ Lao Tzu

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Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.

~ Douglas Adams

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Why yes, I can,' said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. 'The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.

~ Ayn Rand

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I swear by the self-assurance with which elderly men sitting in public tilt sideways to allow the gas to escape loudly.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

~ Robert Mckee

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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

~ Maya Angelou

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...I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages of your devotion...

~ John Geddes

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