Leo Tolstoy

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Kings are the slaves of history.

I always want to think of myself as an underdog.

Don’t ever call a girl fat. Even if you’re joking.

I want to be age appropriate. I don’t want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy.

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

I’m really happy to be me, and I’d like to think people like me more because I’m happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

You are beautiful not because you are better than others, but because there is only you who can smile like that.

No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within- strength, courage, dignity.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

If you are able to look yourself in the mirror every day with the decisions that you make, that’s where power starts.

I’m just a broken person looking for other broken people who may have gotten shards of me stuck in their feet and aren’t too concerned about pulling them out.

I’m intelligent. Some people would say I’m very, very, very intelligent.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, ‘But you’re alone.’ But I don’t feel alone. I feel very un-alone.