It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you.

April Genevieve Tucholke

When parents are too hands-on, kids fail to learn self-reliance. Instead of hovering like a helicopter parent, try submarine parenting: give kids the freedom to explore and surface if there's a distress signal.

Adam Grant

You don't loose a good man. You lose a man who's not good for you.

Steve Harvey

Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

Susan Cain

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

Thomas Mann