Amanda

“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“but some of the data stored in your brain is not accurate. Some of it is like a snowball that started off as a pinch of frost (a fact) but was crusted over with thick chunks of myth, coated with one ounce of misremembered history, and finished off with three knobbly layers of bias.”
― Seema Yasmin, What the Fact?: Finding the Truth in All the Noise