“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”

“Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it.”

“There must be a limit to that kind of lifestyle, though," she says. "You can’t use that strength as a protective wall around you. There’s always going to be something stronger that can overcome your fortress. At least in principle." "Strength itself becomes your morality." "You catch on quickly." "The strength I’m looking for isn’t the kind where you win or lose. I’m not after a wall that’ll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that outside power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things—unfairness, misfortune, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings." "That’s got to be the most difficult strength of all to make your own." "I know…”

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

“Confidence is something we all search for in ourselves, but! Its always there to give us strength and hope.”

“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”