“Maybe letting you go is what I need to finally love myself enough to set me free.”— Sara Di Tullio, thoughtcatalog.com
“Nobody else is capable of loving me as honestly as I can myself.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“Those parts of yourself that you desperately want to hide and destroy will gain power over you. The best thing to do is face and own them, because they are forever a part of you.”— Janet Mock, amazon.com
“Look in the mirror and say, There is none other like you and for that reason alone you are beautiful.”— Miranda Hart, amazon.com
“Now girls are often raised to see love only as giving. Women are praised for their love when that love is an act of giving. But to love is to give AND to take. Please love by giving, and by taking. Give and be given. If you are only giving and not taking, you’ll know. You’ll know from that small and…”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, time.com
“But you are not and never have been an apology, a mistake or a thing to be forgotten. Remember that in the way you wear your skin every morning.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“The world is increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-aging moisturizer? You make someone worry about aging. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them wo…”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“Find someone who loves you for belonging to yourself first.”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“Don't waste your time with friends you don't love... with anything that doesn’t make you better in its presence.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“What small steps can I take to show that I am serious about loving myself?”— Rezzan Hussey, thoughtcatalog.com
“No one is exempt, parents included. Remove toxic relationships from your life. Doesn't mean you love them less, you just love yourself more.”— Brown Girl Alchemy, twitter.com
“Learn to love yourself first before trying to love somebody else .”— SCREAMQUIINJONES ☀️, twitter.com
“Today, let there be a big, huge chasm between where you are and where you’d like to be. Identify it, examine it, and then find a way to let it inspire rather than horrify you. You’re in the process of becoming. And if you fail to acknowledge that you’re not where you’d like to be, you’re never going…”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“It will start to hurt less one day, I promise. You are enough. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise.”— Josephine Saint, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s time to shed the expectations that the world puts on you and make your own. It’s time to disconnect from toxic people that continually find fault with who you are. It’s time to pull away from relationships where you feel like you’re in a constant battle to be in that person’s favor. It’s time t…”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com