“It’s so much easier to let yourself fall apart than it is to piece yourself back together again, to pull yourself off the ground, to feel whole. Complete. At peace.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Self-love is a process. It will require time. It will require patience. It will require change, solitude, pain and everything that isn’t much pretty in this life. But in the end, it will be worth it. It will be beautiful. It will be you.”— Juansen Dizon, juansendizon.tumblr.com
“Trust that it’s okay to put your needs first. You deserve to take care of yourself.”— Daniell Koepke, shopcatalog.com
“To Americans, drinking alone can sound, well, lonely (and, as we’ll get to shortly, problematic), but Finns typically don’t tend to see it that way, in part because they’re quite comfortable with solitude.”— Nicole Spector, nbcnews.com
“Self-respect isn’t a straight line, it’s a circle.”— Sal Calleros, Pete / Marius, Giovanni Ribisi, imdb.com
“What does it mean to go after something, fail at it, become irrationally upset at failure, watch people no longer let you try that one thing because they’ve watched you fail at it, and then convince yourself it wasn’t worth going after?”— John Gorman, medium.com
“You’re not better than other people because you learned to love yourself sooner.”— Akilah Hughes, twitter.com
“I am proud to have my experiences, even if they are different. I do not believe that they make me harder to love.”— Kathryn Poe, medium.com
“There’s no such thing as being too fat or too chubby or too tall or too short for shorts or tank tops or whatever you want to wear. If you feel cute and comfortable, you are.”— Fandoms and Feminism, fandomsandfeminism.tumblr.com
“Confidence is what you use to help you do anything that seems hard, scary, or impossible.”— Katty Kay, amazon.com
“The softest love you will ever have has always been hidden in the inside, the marrow of your own bones.”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“Isn’t it a shame, that we are so quick to forgive the humanness in someone else's soul, but we often forget to forgive ourselves? Isn’t it a shame, that we fight for others, we believe in them with such intensity, and such hope, but we often forget to fight for ourselves?”— Bianca Sparacino, instagram.com
“We have to start appreciating all that we bring to our own lives. Because the ironic truth is, you are most attractive when you’re not worried about who you’re attracting.”— Heidi Priebe, upliftconnect.com
“There’s quiet strength in being gentle with yourself. Strength in withholding some of your effort and energy if it means knowing you’re choosing self-care and survival over self-sabotage and a mental breakdown.”— Daniell Koepke, internal-acceptance-movement.tumblr.com
“I am proud of the way my heart keeps beating, keeps believing, keeps fighting. I am proud of who I am.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“Self love teaches you to let go & make space for the things you really desire.”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“Stop feeding your mind lies. There is nothing wrong with you; you just haven’t stumbled into forever yet.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com