“But here’s the deal, sweet stranger. You deserve to be the protagonist of your own wonderful, bizarre, terrifying little life. If you decide you are enough, you are enough. You don’t need to wait for some grand external validation of your worth before you offer your kindest heart to yourself.”— Kathy Brown, thoughtcatalog.com
“Selfishness and selflessness are not mutually exclusive, and both are equally important.”— Kathy Brown, thoughtcatalog.com
“An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual’s life energy. Humans connect with humans. Hiding one’s humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting…”— Robert Glover, amazon.com
“Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.”— Stephanie Lahart, amazon.com
“I adore my own lost being, my imperfect substance, my silver set and my eternal loss.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“I fell in love with myself and I thought about what makes me, I am just like a flower that needs watering to grow. I learned to nurture myself in every way. I love myself for all the good that I see and accept my flaws and the fact that I am imperfect. This does not mean that I do not learn to chang…”— Denise Small, 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 vibran…”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.”— Victoria Moran, amazon.com
“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“If you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”— Michael J. Fox, books.google.com
“If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them. I want to be one of me.”— Craig Ferguson, amazon.com
“When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com