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#1

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

tags: body-image, books, depression, insecurity, isolation, language, laughter, literature, philosophy, self-consciousness, self-image, self-loathing, shame, social-anxiety

1957 likes

#2

“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: identity, love, loyalty, tris

1127 likes

#3

“It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

1951 likes

#4

“Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

tags: afraid, bravery, common-sense, fear, idiots, scared

603 likes

#5

“I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”
― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

tags: anxiety, friendships, social-anxiety

412 likes

#6

“The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. ”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

939 likes

#7

“Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.”
― Jessica Brody, The Karma Club

tags: karma, revenge

820 likes

#8

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

6896 likes

#9

“I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.”
― Jean Ferris, Twice Upon a Marigold

tags: complaining, whining

61 likes

#10

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

13914 likes

#11

“I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: love, obsession

1194 likes

#12

“Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: simile, uncertainty

371 likes

#13

“No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

tags: the-pact

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#14

“You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

tags: inspirational, life-lessons

337 likes

#15

“You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

628 likes

#16

“Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: jane-eyre, mr-rochester

803 likes

#17

“I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express."

- Jane Eyre”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

244 likes

#18

“I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: cage, confidence, self-esteem, social-anxiety

195 likes

#19

“There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: broken-families, divorce, family, family-ties, forgiveness, hate, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, marriage, moving-on, soul-ties, the-nature-of-family, true-family

2517 likes

#20

“I was waiting for you," he says softly, his eyes dark gray and luminous.
"That's... that's such a lovely thing to say."
"It's true. I didn't know it at the time." He smiles his shy smile.
"I'm glad you waited."
"You are worth waiting for, Mrs. Grey.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed

282 likes

#21

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: love, romance

7179 likes

#22

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: change, control, empowerment, inspirational, letting-go, life, motivational

2706 likes

#23

“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

tags: control, domination, life, love, relationships

239 likes

#24

“If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels

tags: dreams, finding-yourself

203 likes

#25

“When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.”
― Stephen Richards

tags: be-true-to-yourself, discover-the-real-you, finding-yourself, oneness, self-help, stephen-richards, stephen-richards-self-help, transformation

65 likes

#26

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: hate, self-loathing

2879 likes

#27

“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

587 likes

#28

“Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: alone, alone-but-not-lonely, aloneness, being-single, finding-yourself, independence, loving-yourself, positive-thinking, self-love, self-worth, single-life, single-woman, the-single-woman, valuing-yourself

169 likes

#29

“You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone were to come along and pick up those pieces for you? Then you wouldn't have to run away from yourself anymore. You could stop running. If someone sees you as something worth staying with— maybe you'll stay with yourself, too.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: brokenness, finding-yourself, fixing-a-broken-girl, healing, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, running-away, self-worth, stay

317 likes