“People cannot transmute emotions, which is interesting to consider when you realize how utterly consumed the human race is with the concept of getting other people to love us.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“People may tell you they believe in you but they will never do it for you, you’re the only who is capable of holding your own hand in the journey of your life, people come and go but you will always have yourself, so you must find a way to believe in it and have unwavering faith that you can become…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“But when you’re consumed with all the people you’re not, you forget who you are and who you can be, you forget that you could be someone else’s idea of perfection and you forget that you embody exactly what someone else wants or what someone else is looking for.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you ever feel like you’re not good enough for something, it’s because you’re unaware of your own potential and your own value. And when you’re unaware of who you could be, you’re limited to who you think you are, to who people told you were, to who society tells you should be.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“The feeling of being valuable—‘I am a valuable person’—is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“If being loved is your goal, you will fail to achieve it. The only way to be assured of being loved is to be a person worthy of love, and you cannot be a person worthy of love when your primary goal in life is to passively be loved.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“Good morning. You are perfectly cast in your life. I can’t imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.com
“Meditate. Meditation is an incredibly effective tool for clearing away unhelpful thought cycles. 10 minutes. 5 minutes. 1. Whatever. Just sit, close your eyes and breathe. If you want you can breathe on a body acceptance affirmation such as I love and accept my body just as it is right now.”— Linsey Hart, huffingtonpost.com
“Today, let there be a big, huge chasm between where you are and where you’d like to be. Identify it, examine it, and then find a way to let it inspire rather than horrify you. You’re in the process of becoming. And if you fail to acknowledge that you’re not where you’d like to be, you’re never going…”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“It will start to hurt less one day, I promise. You are enough. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise.”— Josephine Saint, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s time to shed the expectations that the world puts on you and make your own. It’s time to disconnect from toxic people that continually find fault with who you are. It’s time to pull away from relationships where you feel like you’re in a constant battle to be in that person’s favor. It’s time t…”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“Though the world may be pulling you down today, though you can’t lift the shadow from your eyes, though you are scared of the future, though you are broken, you are not weak. So close your eyes, take a deep breath, and silently remind yourself of the person you are, of your incredible strength, and…”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“You are not weak. You do not need to be taken care of. You do not need pity, or gentleness, or someone to carry you, or to hold your hand. You have the strength to stand on your own, the confidence to rebuild, the passion to continue, and the love to forgive.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“You may be broken right now, but it will get better. You may be broken right now, but you are not weak.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“But this is what you do when you are broken. You pick yourself up, piece by piece. You re-learn the strongest parts of yourself and fight until you break through. You drag yourself forward until your limbs can hold your weight, then you learn to stand up, to walk, to smile again.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“I hope that things start to look up for you, and I pray to see the day your smile is from pure joy... Some days you can feel so drained, worthless and unmotivated but others you can feel on top of the world, happy and brave. But what you always have to remember is too allow these feelings as it’s wh…”— Olivia Cooney, thoughtcatalog.com
“This world is a beautiful place in which you are one integral, invaluable, in-substitutable part.”— Jacob Geers, thoughtcatalog.com