#self-acceptance

"We can accept and embrace our pasts as part of the path that shaped who we are now."

"I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing."

"I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…"

"Your personal truth is your gift to the world."

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

"A circle's unity and never ending smoothness is how we can aim to feel inside. Smooth, gentle, accepted, no rough edges, only love for all parts of our selves."

"Embrace your diverse, prismatic colors! They make you uniquely you!"

"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."

"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."

"Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjoy your beauty!"

"Deeply respecting yourself is the first step toward having a deep respect for others."

"Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it."

"I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason."

"It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always."

"They are called, "SELF-worth"and "SELF-esteem"for a reason... we can't let others decide what we are worth, that is so dangerous! Empower yourself!"

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

"Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?"

"There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?"

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

"I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you."