#self-acceptance

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

"I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be."

"I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me."

"Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience."

"We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful."

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are"

"Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs."

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me."

"For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever given myself to."

"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection."

"When we embrace who we are the world embraces us right back."

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

"Your healthy love for yourself is sexy!"

"I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal."

"You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know."

"Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love."

"I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening."

"Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation."

"The most adventurous journey to embark on; is the journey to yourself, the most exciting thing to discover; is who you really are, the most treasured pieces that you can find; are all the pieces of you, the most special portrait you can recognize; is the portrait of your soul."