“Me spending all my time thinking about my looks just feels like a dumb investment. It feels like buying a house on the seafront in Malibu where the coastline is disintegrating because of global warming.”— Jameela Jamil, marieclaire.com
“Because of you, I am no longer afraid to be hungry, and I am unashamed of what I hunger for.”— Ashley C. Ford, allure.com
“I knew how to be a united front against the world, how to put someone’s needs before my own, and how to argue with someone while continuing to love and support them.”— Maria Teresa Hart, thecut.com
“The subtext of my early Instagram life was transparent: I hoped you’d find me, viewer.”— Bindu Bansinath, medium.com
“Don't be so hard on yourself. You love and forgive and see the good in other people. That's the most important, regret-free life you could ever live. Place your hand on your heart and say, 'I love you for being you.'”— Jordan Bach, twitter.com
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we'll ever do.”— Brené Brown, twitter.com
“Support yourself with kind thoughts, loving words, and self-empowering acts.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“I would say I outdid myself, but I'm always this good. So I simply did myself.”— Andrew Law, Tahani Al-Jamil, Jameela Jamil, imdb.com
“If you want to be faithful to someone or something, start by being faithful to yourself.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“Congratulations: you no longer have adult acne. You have constellations. A single pimple/zit/blackhead/whitehead is a “star.” Have fun using that in a sentence!”— Amelia Diamond, manrepeller.com
“By pretending to be someone I was not, I had shown him my true self, one I had been too afraid to reveal to anyone else.”— Kalle Oskari Mattila, nytimes.com
“You’re not better than other people because you learned to love yourself sooner.”— Akilah Hughes, twitter.com
“That’s the thing about Narcissus, its not that he’s so fucking in love with himself, because he isn’t at all, he fucking hates himself. It’s that without that reflection looking back at him, he doesn’t exist.”— Alan Ball, Billy Chenowith, Jeremy Sisco, imdb.com
“I'm not ashamed of her. I'm not mad at her for not getting her shit together. I don't wish she looked differently. I don't want her to change. I understand her.”— Kenzie Brenna, refinery29.com
“I am proud to have my experiences, even if they are different. I do not believe that they make me harder to love.”— Kathryn Poe, medium.com
“Confidence is key - never feel like you are less than anyone because you have less than them, be confident in who you are and how you’re made.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“You’ll be free when you realise you don’t have to be, you weren’t meant to be and you’re not suppose to be ANYONE but you. Change, yes. But you’re made uniquely for a reason so be happy with who you are.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com