Remind yourself everyday, child.

"So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it."

• Sheryl Sandberg

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"It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me."

• Warsan Shire

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"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."

• Margaret Atwood

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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

• Agatha Christie

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"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."

• Thich Nhat Hanh

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"It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it's the best advice ever given to me. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling."

• Aldous Huxley

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"Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat."

• Warsan Shire

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"You are not allowed to be a coward and be in love; you have to choose one."

• Unknown

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"And kid, you've got to love yourself. You've got to wake up at four in the morning, brew black coffee, and stare at the birds drowning in the darkness of the dawn. You've got to sit next to the man at the train station who's reading your favorite book and start a conversation. You've got to come home after a bad day and burn your skin from a shower. Then you've got to wash all your sheets until they smell of lemon detergent you bought for four dollars at the local grocery store. You've got to stop taking everything so goddam personally. You are not the moon kissing the black sky. You've got to compliment someones crooked brows at an art fair and tell them that their eyes remind you of green swimming pools in mid July. You've got to stop letting yourself get upset about things that won't matter in two years. Sleep in on Saturday mornings and wake yourself up early on Sunday. You've got to stop worrying about what you're going to tell her when she finds out. You've got to stop over thinking why he stopped caring about you over six months ago. You've got to stop asking everyone for their opinions. Fuck it. Love yourself, kiddo. You've got to love yourself."

• Peter Shankman

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"An entire sea of water can't sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you."

• Goi Nasu

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"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth."

• Albert Camus

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"No one looks back on their life and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep."

• Unknown

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"Home is in my hair, my lips, my arms, my thighs, my feet and my hands. I am my own home. And when I wake up crying in the morning, thinking of how lonely I am, I pinch my skin, tug at my hair, remind myself that I am alive. Remind myself to step outside and greet the morning. Remind myself that it’s all about forward motion. It's all about change. It’s all about that elusive state. Freedom."

• Diriye Osman

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"Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It’s very easy to enjoy yourself."

• Tove Jansson

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"So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."

• Veronica Shoffstall

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"You are enough. Paint it on your mirrors, on the back of your eyelids, drown it in your stomach, sing it in every word you say. You are never too much. Eat your food, sleep eight hours, walk like you love yourself. You are enough. Say it in your sleep, mantras to carry you through your day. There is never enough of you. You are a thirst that is never quenched. I crave you when you’re away. I love every piece of you. But I cannot make you love yourself."

• Michelle K.

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"You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else."

• Daniel Franzese

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"I wish I knew how to move slower. how to kiss hard and still come up for air. How to be kind to each moment like it is my very best lover, an engine of pumpkin sweat and skin. I hope I learn to love myself when no one is looking. I need to drink more water. Maybe that is all I ever need to do. Drink more water. Kiss you. Walk to the store. I am the slowest revolutionary."

• Auren Zuniga

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"I'm not gonna waste energy helping people who don't actually wanna help themselves. I need to use that energy for ME."

• @ppeaked

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"Avoid people who mess with your head. Avoid people who intentionally and repeatedly do and say things that they know upset you. Avoid people who expect you to prioritize them but refuse to prioritize you. Avoid people who can't and won't apologize sincerely. Avoid. Avoid. Avoid."

• @coconutoilqueen

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"Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out."

• Mitch Albom

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"Leave your apartment looking terrible. Walk to the deli and see your usual deli guy’s eyes start to widen at your disheveled appearance. This would've horrified you yesterday but today it makes you smile. You've decided that everything that made you worry will now make you smile. Walk with better posture. Order two helpings of dessert. Ask someone to take you to a doctor’s appointment and refuse to feel guilty about it. You would do the same for them so why should you feel like you’re putting anyone out? Stand by your opinion that The Shins are a good band even when you’re friends give you hell over it. This is thrilling. Openly loving The Shins has never felt so liberating. Tell your father he’s a jerk because he is. Tell your mother that you love her because you do. Don’t tell anyone that you love them if it’s not true, if they don’t deserve it. It’s a privilege to be loved by you. Your emotional slutty days are effectively over."

• Ryan O’Connell

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"I used to dislike being sensitive. I thought it made me weak. But take away that single trait, and you take away the very essence of who I am. You take away my conscience, my ability to empathize, my intuition, my creativity, my deep appreciation of the little things, my vivid inner life, my keen awareness to others pain and my passion for it all."

• by @happyvibes-healthylives

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"To take what we love inside,

to carry within us an orchard, to eat

not only the skin, but the shade,

not only the sugar, but the days, to hold

the fruit in our hands, adore it."

• by Li-Young Lee

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"You are only invisible to those who do not deserve to see you."

• Unknown

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"Sometimes when we worry that we are being judged by someone else, we really are just being a little self-centered. People do not think about you as much as you think they do. More often than not, they are preoccupied with their own thoughts & life. Don’t over-analyze what you think someone is thinking about you, because you can’t read their mind. Next time you think someone is judging you, remind yourself that they are probably more worried about what’s for dinner."

• Unknown

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"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

• William Arthur Ward

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"Self-sabotage is knowing exactly what you need to do to improve but not doing it. It’s procrastinating doing the very things that you know will make you happier. It’s waiting till things are 100% perfect till you do them, but that of course never happens. It’s remaining in the comfort zone because of the fear of failure or uneasiness of change. It’s a mindset that you may be completely unaware of until you really think about it. So think about it. Are you a prisoner of your own thoughts? If you are, take responsibility and acknowledge you put yourself into that prison. But know that you have the power to free yourself."

• Unknown

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"The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you, the Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting."

• Abraham Hicks

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"To my daughter I will say, when men come, set yourself on fire."

• Warsan Shire

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"This year needs to be all about growth and self-development. there is no time for dealing with people who are harming you in anyway. The end."

• Unknown

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"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

• Dylan Thomas

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"Don’t you dare, for one minute,

believe that my kindness makes me

anything but insurmountable.

I did not unzip my chest to every kind of hurt,

and stagger back, wounded and alive,

just to hear you call me weak for trying."

• Ashe Vernon

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"Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing."

• Warsan Shire

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"Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. That solves a lot of problems. Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen…What makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you."

• Brian Eno

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"You should always bear in mind when you're walking into an audition room that, the writer and the director, they have a problem. They have a problem that they need to be solved: They don't know who's gonna play this role. You want to be the solution to their problem. That's what you're aiming for. That's what they're aiming for. Don't walk into a room thinking that you're going to hit a wall of negativity straight away. Everyone in that room wants you to be the answer. Agents want to love your book. Hiring managers want you to be exactly the person they need. The person on the other end of that blind date is hoping beyond hope that you’re their huckleberry."

• Natalie Dormer, etc.