#self-acceptance

"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?"

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you."

"If ever I was running, it was towards you."

"You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful."

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

"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."

"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 know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet."

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

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

"Self-acceptance is pure power."

"The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else."

"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!"

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

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

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