i will no longer compare my path to others - i refuse to do a disservice to my life

why are you so unkind to me my body cries cause you don't look like them i tell her

a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves - responsibility

i hear a thousand kind words about me and it makes no difference yet i hear one insult and all confidence shatters - focusing on the negative

i reduced my body to aesthetics forgot the work it did to keep me alive with every beat and breath declared it a grand failure for not looking like theirs foolish enough to not realise i was already living in one

we have been dying since we got here and forgot to enjoy the view - live fully

you do not just wake up and become the butterfly - growth is a process

despite knowing they won't be here for long they still choose to live their brightest lives - sunflowers

wish pure love and soft peace upon the ones who've been unkind to you and keep moving forward - this will free you both

if i am the longest relationship of my life isn't it time to nurture intimacy and love with the person i lie in bed with each night - acceptance

borders are man-made they only divide us physically don't let them make us turn on each other - we are not enemies

never feel guilty for starting again

trust your body it reacts to right and wrong better than your mind does - it is speaking to you

it is a trillion-dollar industry that would collapse if we believed we were beautiful enough already

their concept of beauty is manufactured i am not - human

how do i shake this envy when i see you doing well sister how do i love myself enough to know your accomplishments are not my failures - we are not each other's competition

we need more love not from men but from ourselves and each other - medicine

you are a mirror if you continue to starve yourself of love you'll only meet people who'll starve you too if you soak yourself in love the universe will hand you those who'll love you too - a simple math

what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn that since day one she's already had everything she needs within herself it's the world that convinced her she did not

In Japan, sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.

I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS.

A lot of people my age, they grew up with me onscreen. I think that's helped keep a certain amount of longevity. When you grow up with a person, you feel like you know them.

We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books.

When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.

What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.'

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

College inspired me to think differently. Its like no other time in your life.

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

I'm looking right at the other half of me.

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.

I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it.

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.

The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.

When the city was on the verge of bankruptcy in the early seventies each time I saw a graffiti covered subway car I felt like crying the graffiti seemed to me a realistic symbol that my hometown if New York City can be called a hometown was really going down the drain.

You dont have to cry on everything that hurts you sometimes it is better to show how strong you are than to make them prove that they can make you die

If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.'

For some reason, it never crossed any mind in this administration to ask for the money back.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.