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25 Reminders That You're More Awesome Than You Know

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

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Marilyn Monroe

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

I used to be self-conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter.

Daniel Radcliffe

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

You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.

Yogi Bhajan

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Albert Einstein

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

Johnny Depp

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

J. K. Rowling

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Les Brown

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Dumbledore

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Andrew Matthews

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.

Cecil Selig

I was once afraid of people saying, 'Who does she think she is?' Now I have the courage to stand and say, 'This is who I am.'

Oprah Winfrey

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.

Steve Maraboli

I wish I could show you, When you are lonely or in darkness, The astonishing light of your own being.

Hafiz

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha