#elf

Do your thing and don't care if they like it. ↗

— Tina Fey

#humor #self-love #tina-fey #humor

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#be-yourself #honesty #inspirational #unsourced #unverifiable

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#identity #individuality #inspirational #life #self-determination

Great men have great discipline.” ― Habeeb Akande ↗

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#great #greatness #hero #leaders #leadership

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#life #yourself #life

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#empowerment #girls #identity #individuality #self-determination

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#love #respect #self-deception #truth #love

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#life #love #self-sacrifice #life

There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we lead and I don't believe that anybody in this country who has really thought about it or really almost anybody who has been brought up against it--and almost all of us have one way or another--this collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and try and become what you really are or you can retreat and try to remain what you thought you were, which is a fantasy, in which you will certainly perish. ↗

— James Baldwin

#self-discovery

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. ↗

— Bernard M. Baruch

#be-yourself #confidence #fitting-in #individuality #those-who-matter