"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

 
"But I warn you," she said, "I am only really myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination."

- Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz

But you see, just because we've been...dealt a certain hand...it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted.

- Edward, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer 

 If you live your life by other people's standards, your life's not really your own.

- Eddie Lee, in Beck

 The most beautifull people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way up out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautifull people do not just ( Read more... )

 Wisdom is knowing I am nothing
Love is knowing I am everything.
And in between the two, my life moves.

- unknown

 Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

- Carl Bard

“When we don’t identify ourselves, we only lend to the impression that we aren’t even there,” said Erynn Rowan Laurie from Everett, Wash. “We create our own invisibility.”