Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall. ― Jodi Picoult

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The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

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Start to finish and quite to fail. ― Nozipho N.Maphumulo

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It’s not about finding your voice, it’s about giving yourself permission to use your voice.

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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. -George S. Patton

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They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming. ― Hermann Hesse

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sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people. ― John Henry Newman

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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. — Oprah

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When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.

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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

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