"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

— Virginia Woolf

"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."

— John Steinbeck

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."

— Carl Rogers