Confidence. Quotes.

It may first seem that I`am quite a confident person, who will always state the own point of view. And that`s right. But, what does it brings to be so confidet. Well, get all that qualities from the books  I read and that is the list of my most beloved quotes:

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”― Marilyn Monroe

“I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”― Mae West

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”― Harvey Fierstein

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”― Siddhārtha Gautama

“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ”― M. Scott Peck

“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.”― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are – what others say is irrelevant.”― Nic Sheff

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”― Mark Twain

“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”― Brigham Young

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I don’t entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I’m me. God knows, I’m me.”― Elizabeth Taylor

“That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretence. It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act – and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.”― Jim Morrison

“I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I’m Harry Potter.”― Daniel Radcliffe

“There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn’t matter anymore.”― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“Don’t try to fix me, I’m not broken…”― Evanescence

“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”― Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness

“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”― Diane Von Furstenberg

“I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you’re not right for yourself, it’s impossible to be right for anyone.”― Rachel Machacek, The Science of Single: One Woman’s Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love

“Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.”― Iyanla Vanzant

“Don’t belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.”― Corita Kent

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”― Norman Vincent Peale

“Dare to love yourself

as if you were a rainbow

with gold at both ends.” ― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others”― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Quotations about travelling

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― Augustine of Hippo

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32)

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, Mark Twain: The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
― Rumi

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Essays

“Augustus,” I said. “Really. You don’t have to do this.”
“Sure I do,” he said. “I found my Wish.”
“God, you’re the best,” I told him.
“I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel,” he answered.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”
― Judith Thurman

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“To travel is to live.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

“But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”
― Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

“because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars…”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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First of all, I`ld like to tell you something about myself/ I am Diana Leka and I am 14 years old. My birthplace is Ukraine, the city  of Lutsk, which is the centre of Volyn region.

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