“We sometimes look at leaving as a bad thing or associate it with giving up or quitting, but sometimes leaving is the best thing you can do for yourself.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t find yourself in. You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t love yourself in.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“You wake up with a list of all the people you'd rather be. But you're already on everyone else's list.”— Iain S. Thomas, amazon.com
“If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”— Arundhati Roy, amazon.com
“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”— Kim McMillen, amazon.com
“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant…”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.”— Kelly Cutrone, amazon.com
“To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's…”— Jocelyn Soriano, amazon.com
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“It's amazin', the amount of rejection That I see in my reflection And I can't get out of the way I'm lookin' forward to the girl I wanna be But regret has got a way of starin' me right in the face So I try not to waste too much time At the bathroom sink”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.”— Anthony Powell, amazon.com
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”— Ernest Hemingway, 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