As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says, ‘you are nothing’, I will be a writer.
Hunter S. Thompson, from “The Proud Highway”, letter to Roger Richards from Cuddebackville, June 3, 1959
A splash of confidence for the day!

Well. First of all, make yourself into the person you want to be. That’s the most important thing. Do what you want with your hair, make sure you’re happy with your body, wear cute underwear, eat things that make you happy. Find a hobby and get amazing at it. Look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself how amazing you are. List at LEAST two things that you like about yourself every day. Try not to compare yourself to others (I struggle with this bit). Find an outfit that makes you feel great and wear it on your favorite day of the week.

Find what makes you happy and focus on it. Try and find when you feel the most confident and try to recreate that situation often.

-Tips for building confidence, spiritguide

I loved this the second I saw it on my dash. This is an awesome, concise, and inspiring list of ways to gain confidence in yourself. I already do some of these things and in some ways am already a confident person, but I really do struggle with some of them and would love to be able to say I actively engage in every one of the items on this list. Everybody should love who they are. Loving yourself is so important when it comes to being happy.

Even though sometimes you can get stuck in a rut in life, or you can feel like the work you’re putting towards a goal is endless, you can always focus on yourself and use that to stay happy. Being positive, loving yourself, and being happy are daily activities, and I think it never hurts to be reminded of that.

Love; it will not betray you
Dismay or enslave you, it will set you free
Be more like the man you were made to be.
Sigh No More, Mumford and Sons
So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that.
When sad, we discuss and then repair with laughter.
Lindsay Ransom, dearest pall-o of mine
The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.
Alphonse Mucha