“Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can't help how you feel.”

“Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment…you can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.”

Eckhart Tolle book A New Earth

“They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“The spirit of what we do is that you do what you feel and when you feel it and not feel you have to be something you're not: you have to be honest to yourself.”

Brian Viglione (1979) American musician

“It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This is not expressing yourself. If you know what to do exactly, and you do it, then you can express yourself fully.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Trust others to do the right thing. If you can't do that, trust yourself to survive what happens.”

Susan Mallery (1950) American author

“You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

“You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.”

Chris Crutcher book Deadline

“The most important person you can ever talk to is yourself, so be careful what you say.
The most important person that you will evaluate is yourself, so be careful what you think.
The most important person you will love is yourself, so be careful what you do.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor