"Something that is loved is never lost."
- Toni Morrison
Love
"Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all."
- Toni Morrison
Love
"Don't ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn't fall in love; I rose in it."
- Toni Morrison
Love
"I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was 12 or 13. He said, ‘You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it.’ And I said, ‘But, Daddy, no one’s going to see it!’ And he said, ‘Yeah, but I know it’s there.’"
- Toni Morrison
Love
"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
- Toni Morrison
Love
"Self-respect tends to inspire respect from others."
- Nathaniel Branden
Self-esteem
"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."
- Les Brown
Self-esteem
"Thinking you’re no-good and worthless is the worst thing you can do."
- Nobito
Self-esteem
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Self-esteem
"You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are."
- Melissa Etheridge
Self-esteem