“I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com
“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean towards the opposite.”— Shane Koyczan, twitter.com
“However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.”— Aidan Chambers, amazon.com
“I need to learn how to stop destroying myself, stop being hard on myself and be nice to myself. I need to keep telling myself that I need to keep wanting something, something nice, something warm…[so] I can make other people happy. I can understand other people’s pain because I can love even after a…”— Daul Kim, quotemadness.com
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”— Buddha, books.google.com.ph
“You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.”— Andrea Gibson, issuu.com
“I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."”— Don Cheadle, goodreads.com
“I’ve been trying to convince my shadow that I’m someone worth following.”— Rudy Francisco, youtube.com
“I think that whatever I do is my business. I do it because if I don’t I’m finished. I’m selfish: I do it for myself to save what is left of myself.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”— Leo Buscaglia, amazon.com
“When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.”— Beyoncé, interviewmagazine.com
“You were all things soft: a feather, a candle a kiss on a tired cheek. But you were not weak. You took the world and made all yours. And yes, you became.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc