#tee

For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#healing #heartbreak #love #self-esteem #sincerity

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#self-image #self-improvement #life

Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#comes #good #made #most #movies

I was a handful growing up. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#growing #growing up #handful #i #up

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#business #changes #continue #control #create

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS. ↗

— Ryan White

#am #i #i am #name #old

I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#been #boy #extremely #fourteen #having

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#approval #beauty #carrying #exposed #identity

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach. ↗

— James Wolfe

#certain #confidence #dangerous #foe #full

I’m nothing great. But I’m a rose… I’m a rose whether I’m admired or not, I’m a rose whether anyone’s crazy about me or not… Like I said, nothing great. Just a rose… But, do you know what it means to be a rose, my friend? Being a rose means ‘freedom.’ It means not existing by the praises of Others or not ceasing to exist by their disapproval. ↗

— Serdar Özkan

#self-acceptance #self-esteem #freedom