“What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence — liking yourself’s the beginning of all love.”

“Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

“For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do…
[Lucifer]”

Glen Duncan (1965) British writer

“When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

“If the guy likes/loves you, he won't care if you are a good kisser or not.
He should like you for what you are - not how you kiss.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

“Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

“A lot of people try to boil down creation to just one thing and "what are you gonna do next" as if there's always a ladder to climb and it's like, the ladder is what you make for yourself, right?”

Markiplier (1989) American YouTuber and Internet personality

“But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

“Doing good and dedicating yourself to others will make you feel like a better person.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer