“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” ~ Bell Hooks
“Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.” ~ Steve Maraboli
“Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body.” ~Golda Poretsky
“My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they’re rich and important.” ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.” ~ Tia Walker
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Growing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesn’t have to take all your time. It rather requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.” ~ Victoria Moran
“Stop focusing on how stressed you are, and remember how blessed you are.” ~ Unknown
“Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential.” ~ Mollie Marti
“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.” ~ Karl Lagerfeld
“You can do this, and if you can’t do it today, you’ll do it tomorrow. You are not a failure.” ~ Alisha Rai
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” ~ Jack Kornfield
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” ~ William James
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny better than you do.” John O’Donohue
“It’s good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life.” ~ Anne LaMott
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” ~ William S. Burroughs
“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.” ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.” ~ Deborah Day
“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?” ~ Confucius
“Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.” ~ Christopher Germer
“Give your stress wings, and let it fly away.” ~ Terri Guillemets
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” ~ Dr. Seuss
“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.” ~ Etty Hillesum
“It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.” ~ Wayne Dyer
“You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.” ~ Steve Maraboli
“Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” ~ Lucille Ball
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.” ~ Mandy Hale
“Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.” ~ Susan Ariel Rainbow
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“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” ~ Sophia Loren
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“Being extremely honest with oneself is good exercise.” ~ Signmnd Freud
“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” ~ Edward Stanley
“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” ~ C. Joybell C.
