Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don’t hide your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.That is how you change the world.

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

Living a lie is painful, and doesn’t do anyone any good. I had to be true to myself, because, either way, God would know if I was lying.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

People will ask you the question ‘how is life treating you?’ But my question is ‘how are you treating life?’ On that your happiness rests

The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.

A #loveselfie isn’t a picture or a status update. It’s an attitude of embracing, accepting, and valuing yourself, exactly as you are in each moment. It’s being one hundred percent present with yourself. Try it.

The question isn’t whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?

Make a vow to yourself today that from now on you will treat yourself with the same love, attention, affection, understanding, compassion and forgiveness that you so readily give to others.

What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit

You think it’s so easy to change yourself. You think it’s so easy, but it’s not True, things don’t stay the same forever: couches are replaced, boys leave, you discover a song, your body becomes...

I found myself praying: “May I love and accept myself just as I am.

Your skin is your skin. Your legs are your legs. Your hair is your hair. Your smile is your smile. Your past is your past. You can waste your life hating these things, but you...

It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together… then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.

They are called, “SELF-worth” and “SELF-esteem” for a reason… we can’t let others decide what we are worth, that is so dangerous! Empower yourself!

The peak of happiness is attained when a person has accepted to be what he is.

Finding oneself and one’s path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already...

Winning or losing achieves the same result–change.

I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and empty and bruised. I feel like, God doesn’t look at me and wish...

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Practise really seeing yourself in the mirror. This is NOT about examining yourself. This is about you looking beyond your external image to connect with your soul. Look upon yourself with complete appreciation and acceptance....

You are you, no one else is you, you are the right you, and the right you, is the you that you love.

How do I structure my life to be at peace with who I am, & comfortable with what I’m doing & not doing?

The way I saw it, I was fully capable of being treated with indifference that bordered on disdain while maintaining a strong sense of self-respect. I obeyed his commands, sure that I could fulfill this...

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

My job, my only job here in this moment, is to love myself and, by extension, to love others. My job is just to live and to realize that to live is to love.

One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others. There was a time when I felt lousy about my over-forty...

Don’t let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to...

I laugh at myself. I don’t take myself completely seriously. I think that’s another quality that people have to hold on to… you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

And lose my cock, balls and prostate? Are you kidding me? Honey, I’m still all man. I’m just a man with decoration,” Tommy had explained before turning with a flounce and practically floating out of...

The price tag that you put on your soul will determine the people and circumstances in which you find yourself.

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

It’s not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

My Dear Friend, Don’t ever allow yourself to forget how incredibly special you are, even for a single second. Without you, the world would not be as magnificent. Let yourself remember to love again, starting...

Self-love is not the process of ignoring things, paying attention to fewer flaws or forcing yourself to look away from the parts of you that you perceive as ugly or unwanted. Self-love is the process...