“It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.”
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist
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“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde book The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals, Special Edition, Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA, 1997, p. 13.
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist
(1981) Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”
“You are what you believe yourself to be.”
Paulo Coelho book The Witch of Portobello
Source: The Witch of Portobello (2007), p. 152.
Context: You are what you believe yourself to be.
Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already. And when you doubt it — which happens, I think, quite often at this stage of evolution — do as I suggested. Instead of trying to prove that you're better than you think, just laugh. Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it. Now go back and meet all those people who think you know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.
Believe.
“If it's not important for you, then it's not important for me.”
Lucky Gupta (1998) Internet celebrity
2021
“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
Lilith Saintcrow book Strange Angels
Source: Strange Angels
“I have other duties equally sacred … Duties to myself.”
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet
Nora Helmer, Act III
Variant translation: I have another duty equally sacred … My duty to myself.
A Doll's House (1879)
“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting!”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Variant: Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1978)
“He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Bernard Baruch in response to a question by Igor Cassini as to how he handled the seating arrangements at his dinner parties, as quoted in Shake Well Before Using: A New Collection of Impressions and Anecdotes Mostly Humorous (1948) by Bennett Cerf, p. 249; the full response was "I never bother about that. Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter." This anecdote is also quoted online at Chiasmus.com http://www.chiasmus.com/archive/msg00241.html. It has also become part of a larger expression, which has been commonly attributed to Dr. Seuss, even in print, but without citation of a specific work: "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
“How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.”
Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer
Source: The Other Side of the Story
