#self-acceptance

"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."

"YOU are your own guru. YOU are your own soul mate. YOU are powerful. Take the reigns and drive your carriage home to love."

"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."

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

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

"I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness."

"Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be."

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

"Your healthy love for yourself is sexy!"

"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."

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

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

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection"

"An empowered sense of self-love means you truly love and accept yourself as you would a treasured lover or a sweet, wonderful child, and that you do this from a place of strength of character and belief in yourself."

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

"I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years — across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break because our souls are tied."

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

"You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company."

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

"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…"