The truth is that there are a lot of people like you, us, with strange hobbies or talents or gifts and we try to hide it because we’re afraid that it makes us seem weird or turn people off, but that’s a mistake. What makes me unique has bought every person I love into my life.
Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies
Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you’re young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don’t let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.
John Bingham
I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we’re all cowards.
Alberto Salazar, three-time winner of the NYC marathon
I’ve met very few dumb gay guys. It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you’re gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.
Jason Bateman 
Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself.
Humphrey Bogart, The African Queen
I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for.
James Stewart,  An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you’ve created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich?
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
…because you’re only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you.
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
At the root of all glamour, there is confidence.
Isaac Mizrahi (via emilyposts)

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.’ We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson