PHOTOS: 25 Inspirational Selena Gomez Quotes to Brighten Your Day

It's no secret that Selena Gomez was very quiet this summer, as she laid low while she focused on her health. But the singer/actress has now come forward to reveal that she underwent a kidney transplant due to her Lupus, and her friend, actress Francia Raisa (from The Secret Life of the American Teenager), was the person who donated the kidney. 'By grace through Faith' is a phrase that Selena lives by, and she is such a positive role model for her fans. Scroll through some of her other uplifting quotes below.

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1. "I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!" -- Twist, 2008

2. "You can't be afraid of what people are going to say, because you're never going to make everyone happy." -- Seventeen

3. "If you are able to look yourself in the mirror every day with the decisions that you make, that's where power starts." -- Seventeen

4. “Girl power is almost more powerful and more special than anything we are competing for.” -- Seventeen 

5. “I've gotten to the point where the label of 'best friend' is so ridiculous. If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.” -- Seventeen

6. “If you are broken you do not have to stay broken.” -- 2014 American Music Awards

7. "You all have pressure that you have to deal with every day – with school, with work, with friends, with parents, with family. [People] tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be. Until recently I had given into that pressure, I lost sight of who I was. I listened to opinions of people and I tried to change who I am because I thought others would accept me for it. And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself." -- 2014 WeDay Speech

8. “I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.” -- E! Entertainment Special: Selena Gomez

9. When asked whether she takes inspiration from ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber’s career trajectory, she told Billboard: “No. This is my time. I’ve deserved this. I earned it. This is all me.”

10. “I feel safe with my fans. I’m going to meet every single one of them. They’re the goodness of what I do.” -- Billboard

11. “There’s a certain standard women are held to because...I don’t know. So many women nowadays are so loud about it. We need to cause a bit of uproar, because I’ve seen it. I’ve experienced it. It’s absurd.” -- Billboard

12. “I feel very empowered and confident and comfortable with where I am. And I think it took me a long while to get there because, you know, the past year was so interesting because I’ve never been body-shamed b before…I did gain weight, but I don’t care.” -- On Air With Ryan Seacrest

13. "People are going to bring you down because of your drive, but, ultimately, it makes you a stronger person to turn your cheek and go the other way."  -- Seventeen

14. “I don't want to become little or hurt or a victim. I want to be strong for girls,” she says. “I just want them to know that there is an option of standing up for yourself.” -- Refinery29

15. ”I don't alter my life because of what people are going to talk about. If I go and have a great time, I live my life and nothing is going to dictate how I feel unless I let it.” -- Rolling Stone

16. "At the end of the day success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with, you're just gonna end up lonely." -- E! News

17. “I'm glad my life was never perfect.” -- Rolling Stone

18. "The older I've gotten, the more I've learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunities. Maybe I'll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won't know until I do it." -- Teen Vogue

19. “People are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons." -- Seventeen

20. “Sometimes you'll have moments where you'll feel weak. They're supposed to encourage you, they're supposed to motivate you and push you.” -- Seventeen

21. ”...one by one, I will be able to change the dialogue and people won’t care about everything that’s happened to me.” -- GQ

22. “I’ve been very vulnerable with my fans, and sometimes I say things I shouldn’t. But I have to be honest with them. I feel that’s a huge part of why I’m where I am.” -- Vogue

23. “I wish more people would talk about therapy. We girls, we’re taught to be almost too resilient, to be strong and sexy and cool and laid-back, the girl who’s down. We also need to feel allowed to fall apart.” -- Vogue

24. “I think it’s important to balance out where I am and I’ve been doing this for a really long time and my sanity has meant everything to me, and a lot of that is my faith.” -- Elvis Duran and the Morning Show

25. "By grace through Faith" - Selena's Instagram