You've Always Been Good Enough You Just Gotta Start Believing It

“Just a friendly reminder that functioning under the impression that you must be happy all the time can stress you out. Relax. Feel what you're feeling and let it flow.”

— Andrian Janog Jutba, facebook.com

“When someone called me a hero, I wanted to prove them right. When someone called me a devil, I wanted to prove them wrong. It took a lot of self-examination to realize that I was neither. There is a fullness to a person that is gigantic and nuanced and indefinable. It was equally impossible to be a…”

— Anonymous, facebook.com

“When somebody else comes along and makes you feel like something special — it’s like catnip. You want more of it. You want to say: ‘Let’s get lunch sometime.’ But in the end, you are what you are no matter how somebody makes you feel. It’s just a feeling.”

— Anonymous, facebook.com

“I don’t chase people anymore. I learned that I’m here, and I’m important. I’m not going to run after people to prove that I matter.”

— Emily Y., facebook.com

“You are enough. You’ve ALWAYS been more than enough, but to the wrong people you’ll always be inadequate.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com

“I am a confident woman, but I didn’t just arrive confident – it has built over the years and that is a big part of who I am now.”

— Kim Kardashian, elleuk.com

“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”

— Anaïs Nin, facebook.com

“He wanted me to be the sky. I left because he couldn’t see I already was.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, sadeandriazabala.com

“I don't broadcast every high and I don't hide every low. I'm trying to live, I'm not trying to convince the world I have a life.”

— Rob Hill Sr., twitter.com

“I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.”

— Rudy Francisco, twitter.com

“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, amazon.com

“So I encourage everyone to do more than seek out a label - seek out yourself”

— Equality Speaks, youtube.com

“I thought you understood me, but it was just me misunderstanding you.”

— Michael Lipsey, stoicmike.tumblr.com

“I am a museum full of art, but you had your eyes shut.”

— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com

“You will still be art even when he stops admiring.”

— Anonymous, krowkadile.tumblr.com

“In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake, but by what you finally accomplish.”

— Donald Trump, twitter.com

“We should learn to accommodate ourselves to “wrongness,” striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and in our partners.”

— Alain de Botton, nytimes.com

“I’ve learned to ignore everything. In the beginning, I thought I was too sensitive for this. I’d Google myself, and it would freak me out. Now, I could care less if they say I’m pregnant with twins by my brother.”

— Kim Kardashian, schmulldog.wordpress.com

“You are hard to look at not because you glow, but because you are the drop off of a skyscraper. You are the distance to the ground, you are what people fear to fall into, you are what people risk their lives to see. And when someone does finally see you, it is because they were courageous enough to…”

— Lillian Shelton, helladopeprncs.tumblr.com

“Stop chasing after boys who don’t even make the effort to message you, chase you, or get to know you. You are sick of people who make you feel they don’t want you enough. Find someone who knows what they want. Find someone who knows what they want is you.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, amazon.com

“But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. You know?”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“You wake up with a list of all the people you'd rather be. But you're already on everyone else's list.”

— Iain S. Thomas, amazon.com

“If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself.”

— Elif Shafak, amazon.com

“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”

— Kim McMillen, amazon.com

“To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's…”

— Jocelyn Soriano, amazon.com

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

“I promise to be gentle with myself. Because in an argument with myself, I’ll always lose.”

— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com

“Don't overestimate everyone else and underestimate yourself.”

— Tanya Burr, amazon.com