“And so you became. Your soul felt lighter, shifting with the weight of change. You stopped trying to fit and started to just be. Imperfect and flawed, tough and soft, tender and strong.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Dear future self: You are not responsible for anyone's happiness but your own. So choose yourself. Even when no one else will.”— Orenda, instagram.com
“You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.”— Daniel Franzese, cherrywhore.tumblr.com
“He did not love himself and perhaps for that reason felt that he did not deserve the love of others.”— Isabel Allende, amazon.com
“It’s impossible to be truly intimate with someone if you don’t like yourself.”— Jane Fonda, amazon.com
“I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.”— Phillip C. McGraw, amazon.com
“Find someone who becomes your mirror, so that every time you see them, you fall in love with yourself, too.”— Shashank K, instagram.com
“There is nothing shameful about loving yourself. The shame is in NOT loving the unique and brilliant individual that you are.”— Miya Yamanouchi, amazon.com
“On nights when you feel like your mouth Is filled with scar tissue when your fists are heavier than your clay heart, remember the broken that does not need replacement remember the lungs that pound air in a body too tired to kiss the sun tell yourself you are still working on it say healing, say tak…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Hold that white flag close to your heart And pluck the orange from the sun – it is setting Let it set on your palms Let your shaking bones beat like djembe drums Let your surrender fall to the ground So it can hold this tiny blue earth together. There is an ocean inside of you and Its waves come in…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“I see smoke each time I look in the mirror Perhaps this is God’s way of keeping me safe He knows I’m tired of seeing dead birds in rusting cages. Last night, I called the wind and asked How she taught the dove to fly ‘the sky is a map if you know how to look’ She said. And I looked at my skin, marke…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Love yourself enough that you don’t allow yourself to go back to shitty relationships and put yourself in situations that you know aren’t healthy for you.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Maybe I need to be my person for now. Hold my own hand. Hug myself to sleep. Learn to be my biggest fan.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“No trait is sexier than confidence. Radiating the message 'I am happy to be who I am,' will draw attention to you like no physical attribute could. Feeling confident about your own attractiveness, and seeing yourself as desirable will help others to see you that way too.”— Valeria Chuba, selfgrowth.com
“Accept those simple compliments you received from your family, friends, acquaintances and even strangers.”— John Erick Nepomuceno, thoughtcatalog.com