“People always ask me, ‘You have so much confidence. Where did that come from?’ It came from me. One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl… it doesn’t have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see…”
-Gabourey Sidibe
Tag: quotes
“It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts.”
-Ella Fitzgerald
“If you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a serious problem.”
–Toni Morrison
“Ask only whether you are living your values, not whether the boxes are ticked.”
-Sheila Heti
“I restore myself when I’m alone. A career is born in public; talent in privacy.“– Marilyn Monroe
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
-Muhammad Ali
“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
-Nelson Mandela
“Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”
-Maya Angelou
“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin
“You’re the only one who can decide what kind of life you want. Go ahead and do what you know is right.”
–Madge Sinclair