#tee

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#clever #crude #enough #genius #girl

She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality. It hurts, because deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often very funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#personality #self-esteem #beauty

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#aware #before #children #conscious #easily

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#because #chill #churning #hit #i

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#committee #i #member #never #official

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses. ↗

— Jena Malone

#about #adolescence #dresses #just #prom

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#life #like #low #low self-esteem #self-esteem

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#adapt #braces #buck #change #comfortable

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#as far as #ball #ball player #baseball #before

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times. ↗

— Franz Marc

#conventional #created #everything #exterior #genuine