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Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed. ↗

— Rodolfo Costa

#inspiration #life #responsibility #self-development #inspirational

If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was. ↗

— Mary Griffith

#gay-rights #independent-thought #inspirational #religion #inspirational

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confident #determination #dragon #dragons

IF YOU CHOKE YOUR POTENTIAL BEFORE IT HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME A POSSIBILITY YOU WILL NEVER REACH YOUR DESTINY ↗

— Mo Stegall

#inspirational-quotes #personal-growth #self-confidence #self-help #inspirational

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true. I believe that, by the grace of God, men will awake presently and be men again, and colour and laughter and splendid living will return to a grey civilisation. But that will only come true because a few men will believe in it, and fight for it, and fight in its name against everything that sneers and snarls at that ideal. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#inspirational #war #inspirational

Nothing and no one is perfect. It just takes a good eye to find those hidden imperfections. ↗

— Daphne Delacroix

#good #hidden #imperfection #inspirational #perfection

Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that they can create [expansive or entrapping] realities over and over.~Kuan Yin ↗

— Hope Bradford

#goddess #gratitude #inspirational #kuanyin #law-of-attraction

When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence! ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#love #purity #self-confidence #self-esteem #self-respect

I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice. ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#inspirational #inspirational

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#inspirational #life #inspirational