Maxwell Maltz: "Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible."

People who judge you only serve to sentence themselves while you go free. There's no need to defend yourself. Let them be.

You are the only person who is in charge of how you feel about yourself. Nobody else can possibly do that. You get to decide if you believe you are beautiful or not, and nobody can take it away from you. If someone suggests that you aren’t beautiful, you can consider how sad it is that they have such a limited view of beauty. You can consider how unfortunate it is that they have such an exaggerated sense of self-importance that they think you should care about what they think. You can also choose to realize that it has nothing at all to do with your beauty and everything to do with their limitations.

Standing up for yourself is an act of love, not war.

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

The relationship with yourself sets the foundation for every other relationship in your life.