“Every day it becomes more & more apparent to me that I'm different. God has special plans for me.”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“Set goals so high that they demand an entirely different version of you.”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“Don't prioritize other people's needs over yours. Your own needs should always come first.”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“If you don’t see me, that’s okay. I see me, and that is quite enough.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“Forgive yourself, first. Love yourself, first. The magic will soon follow, i promise.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“Do not let others dictate your wants and needs for you; do not let others dictate your happy for you.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“In order to resist the “dine and dash” strategies of a ravenous emotional vampire, empaths have to learn to nourish themselves with self-care rather than settle for crumbs in their relationships.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Stable happiness comes from taking care of yourself. Hinging your happiness on the decisions of others is fleeting. When your own happiness is stable, you can better help others, as well.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“Happiness needs to be a stable road, not a series of brief moments of ecstasy. Measure yours in consistency and stability and try to avoid comparing it to friends' accomplishments. It's your journey, no one else's.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“It’s not selfish to take time for yourself. If you take a little time for yourself, you will actually be much better company for those around you.”— KeSha, twitter.com
“It’s not your responsibility to try to make the whole world happy. Especially since sometimes it’s not that easy to make yourself happy, either.”— KeSha, twitter.com
“2018 will be the year that I get to be selfish because I have spent every year before so worried about everybody else, pleasing everybody around me.”— Andrea Loces, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don’t beat yourself up for beating yourself up. We just need to learn to make friends with our inner critic.”— Dr. Kristin Neff, nytimes.com
“Self-compassion is treating yourself with the same kindness, care and concern you show a loved one.”— Dr. Kristin Neff, nytimes.com
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”— Audre Lorde, newyorker.com
“In a [very] peaceful place where my heart only has the capacity to fall in love one more time and it’s with myself.”— Ali Segel, twitter.com
“Smartphones have been around, in their current form, for about 10 years. Humankind is 200,000 years old,” Greenfield says. “Is it possible that we’ve distorted how important this technology is to our lives?”— Jamie Ducharme, Dr. David Greenfield, fortune.com
“Dr. David Ballard, head of the American Psychological Association’s Center for Organizational Excellence, agrees it’s healthy to unplug—but adds that everyone detoxes differently. Some people prefer to power down completely during their time off, while others feel less stressed if they allow themsel…”— Jamie Ducharme, fortune.com
“There’s a lot of medical evidence to suggest that we live in a hyper-elevated state of arousal and activated stress hormones due to being so accessible and ever-vigilant for electronic input.”— Dr. David Greenfield, fortune.com