“At the center of vulnerability, we find shame, fear, grief, anxiety, uncertainty, scarcity, but this also the birthplace of love belong and joy.”— Brené Brown, Herself, Brené Brown, imdb.com
“While I may laugh at the words scrawled across a cupcake-shaped sticky (“I am loved? But by whom, and why are they choosing to inform me this way?”), I certainly don’t begrudge the psychological benefit these anonymous affirmations may provide others.”— Rachel Siemens, manrepeller.com
“You are made of beautiful, incredible, impossible things and your trauma does not get to trick you into believing that it is the only thing about you that matters.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“Getting right with yourself is as simple as listening to your heart for a change. Learn to trust your feelings instead of stigmatizing them, or making jokes, or acting like they don’t exist.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“If you want to have healthy relationships with other people, you need to develop a healthy one with yourself first, and that can’t come without you spending time on your own. You literally need to be alone.”— Chidera Eggerue, nytimes.com
“I have this fantasy of being someone who bakes, but as it currently stands, I can’t stand it, and for a while I found that infuriating.”— Amelia Diamond, manrepeller.com
“With so many new outlets for fight, I have grown increasingly good at finding reasons to hate my body. I have found hundreds of ways to lie to myself about my body; to tell myself that is not good enough.”— Kimberly Drew, broadly.vice.com
“In our culture, the act of celebrating is very tied to specific reasons for celebration — birthdays, graduations, marriages and the like. There are certain markers that are universally understood: We eat cake. We dance. We break piñatas. 'But shame-eating a cake in your crib because you’re stressed…”— Emma Bracy, manrepeller.com
“I honestly don’t know if I’ve met more than five happy famous people… they’re all miserable. They really are!”— Jameela Jamil, nylon.com
“When I first learned that no one could ever love me more than me a world of happiness previously unseen was discovered.”— Savannah Brown, youtube.com
“Taking selfies doesn’t hurt anyone, isn’t offensive by nature, and is largely inconsequential.”— Sable Young, allure.com
“repeat after me: you owe no one your forgiveness. - except maybe yourself.”— Amanda Lovelace, instagram.com
“i will not be who you need me to be i will be who i need me to be”— Jacqueline Whitney, instagram.com
“Always remember that something that may seem so small to you could make a world of difference to somebody else.”— Jodi Taylor, coveteur.com
“There’s no one I’d rather be, than me!””— Rich Moore, Wreck-It Ralph (voice), John C. Reilly, imdb.com