“You know...I can feel the fear that you carry around and I wish there was something I could do to help you let go of it because...if you could...I don't think you'd feel so alone anymore. You're beautiful.”— Joaquin Phoenix, Theodore, amazon.com
“He makes you feel beautiful. Feeling confident and beautiful means uninhibited, embarrassment-free nookie!”— Kenny Smoov, kennyonline.net
“He makes you feel beautiful. Mind blowing sex is all about feeling free to be your uninhibited self because you know that your partner appreciates you.”— Jennifer Oikle, huffingtonpost.com
“Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress.”— Kiera Cass, comic-con.org
“I'm going to hang out with people, and I'm going to explore myself, and I'm okay with that.”— Selena Gomez, people.com
“It’s when you’re not looking for anything that something winds up coming along. It’s about learning how to be just with yourself and that you don’t need to be in a relationship. You don’t need anyone around to fulfill you.”— Hayden Panettiere, huffingtonpost.com
“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”— Amy Bloom, amazon.com
“Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”— Warsan Shire, genius.com
“The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves.”— Shirley MacLane, amazon.com
“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”— Warsan Shire, genius.com
“You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.”— Warsan Shire, genius.com
“Empaths are born that way, but being empathic is something all, or most, of us can learn. They put others in front of themselves as long as it’s doable. Harmony in any given circumstance is something they strive to create. They are being affected by others’ emotions and energies—so balance is super-…”— Kristine Einang, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’m here to remind you, and myself, that all your feelings are welcome. All your emotions, your ‘too much-ness’, your intensity. All the parts of you that are deep and dark and challenging and hard. They are welcome. They are beautiful and true. They are healing and powerful. They are the place from…”— Stephenie Zamora, thoughtcatalog.com
“The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth.' This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognize it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of…”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, theguardian.com
“The Empath is often said to have such a great degree of empathy that they can literally feel what others feel, and thus intuitively know many of the yearnings, sensitivities, tastes and even thought patterns of the people they're around.”— Aletheia Luna, amazon.com
“She had a very inconvenient heart. It always insisted on feeling things ever so deeply.”— John Mark Green, johnmarkgreenpoetry.tumblr.com