#dent

There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#beautiful-confidence #beauty #being-yourself #confident #happiness

[H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vowels and less mincing sounds. His body was long and lean and trim; he had American hips, ready for a neat belt and the faraway ghost of a gunbelt. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#self-awareness #self-image #body-image

The more fucked up you are, the more I like you. As long as you've managed to hold onto your identity through all the shit, then it won't matter how twisted you are. I will love you more for it. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#experiences #fucked-up #humor #identity #love

We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core. Without them, we are empty. ↗

— Daisy Whitney

#love

Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world. ↗

— Hélder Câmara

#diversity #empowerment #humanity #identity #justice

Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fiction #identity #paranormal-romance #supernatural #young-adult

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#happiness #humor #identity #intimacy #life

It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are. ↗

— Eric Jerome Dickey

#love #scary #love

Alice is fictional. This isn't. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#dark-humor #group-think #groupthink #lady-gaga #mad-magazine