“What is needed is courage: it is always so much easier to accept what you are being told than to think for yourself.”

“Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.”

Julia Child (1921–2004) American chef

“Regardless of what you may think about yourself or what you have been told about yourself or what you may have been taught to believe about yourself… THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU. THERE NEVER WAS.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

“Tamaki: Having the courage to be able to admit what you love… enjoying what you love… and being true to yourself… Isn't that also what it means to be strong?”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

“There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.”

John Fowles book The Magus

“By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.”

Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

“Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow yourself away - was more than enough courage to keep on living?”

Sharon M. Draper book Tears of a Tiger

“But I think you have a right to know what it is you’re not being told.”

Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters