“ Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you. Vironika Tugaleva
“ Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden
“ What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on t… Maxwell Maltz
“ I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician Charlie Chaplin
“ At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves. R.C. Sproul
“ [H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vowels and less mincing sounds. His body was long and lean and trim; he had American hips, ready for a… A.S. Byatt
“ I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe
“ Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good. Naomi Wolf
“ If it is true, as God says, that we are as we think, we risk becoming what we most fear if our fear is stronger than our love. Ron Brackin
“ The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions. Marya Hornbacher
“ It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one's self back in that kind of mood, but I do see it; I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we use… Joan Didion
“ You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way o… Marya Hornbacher
“ A diminished self-image will cause you to slouch, to avoid meeting others, to avoid looking others in the eye, to be unassertive, and to be indecisive. Chris Prentiss
“ From the dream to mainstream...Do whatever is necessary to make your dream a reality. To get others to invest in you and your dreams you must be willing to invest in yourself. Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
“ We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by. George Eliot
“ I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. Probably I never would have had any trouble at all if I hadn't run into Brett when they shipped me to… Ernest Hemingway
