„You make yourself strong because it’s expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.“

— Jodi Picoult

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„If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!“
— Brené Brown
„you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.“
— Jodi Picoult
„You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.“
— Oprah Winfrey
„In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.“
— Joseph Campbell
„whatever you think that you will be.if you think yourself weak, weak you will be;if you think yourself strong, you will be“
— Swami Vivekananda
„I think you can love a person too much.You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.“
— Jodi Picoult
„Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.“
— Horace Mann