“What’s the point of being a magician if you can’t wave your wand and make the people you care about feel better?”

“At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

“You can’t make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about
yourself.”

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

“You can’t change how people feel about you, so don’t try. Just live your life and be happy.”

Ralph Smart

“What’s the point of being in charge if you can’t indulge in pointless favoritism.”

John Scalzi (1969) American science fiction writer

“You can’t part the waters without making some waves.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

“Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

“The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.”

Meryl Streep (1949) American actress

“Liquor doesn’t make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad.”

Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States