Work hard on your job and work harder on yourself
People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them
Confidence is not 'they will like me'. Confidence instead is 'I'll be fine if they don't'.
Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be, that's stupid. So be yourself
No matter what society is trying to drill in your head about how you should look, how you should act, and what you need to say, I think it's all crap. All of it. Be yourself and do you.
Be different; be unique; be yourself.
I'm not perfect, but I believe my faith in Jesus Christ will really take me far in the world!
They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes; and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.
Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories. . . The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would.
Anger simply shows that something in you is hurt, some wound is there.