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The only way to do it is to do it, and the only way to do it right is to do it scared.
Glen Gerreyn
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Brian Tracy
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here!
Steve Maraboli
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.
Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.
Brené Brown
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
Amy Bloom
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Carl Jung
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do.
Brené Brown
Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgment, and shame. It’s a shield. It’s a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it’s the thing that’s really preventing us from flight.
Brené Brown
The only way to get what you really want is to be who you really are.
Andrea Wachter
You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
Brené Brown
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept.
Anna Taylor
You have the right to say 'no' without feeling guilty.
Lynda Field
The only people who get upset about you setting boundaries are the ones who were benefiting from you having none.
Unknown
You get to decide what you accept and what you don't. You get to decide what you tolerate and what you won't. You get to decide who you allow into your life and who you don't.
Sonya Parker
Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn't make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don't do things your way. I care about me too.
Christine Morgan
When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.
Brené Brown
You are allowed to terminate toxic relationships. You are allowed to walk away from people who hurt you. You are allowed to be angry and selfish and unforgiving. You don't owe anyone an explanation for taking care of yourself.
Unknown
Boundaries are not walls to keep people out, but rather filters to let the right ones in.
Kristen Butler
You can't pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.
Unknown
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Louise L. Hay
The only way to do something brave is to first acknowledge that you're scared.
Unknown
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Rumi
Forgive yourself for the times you didn't trust yourself. For the times you let doubt take over. For the times you didn't believe in yourself. Forgive yourself and trust yourself again.
Unknown
Forgive yourself for the times you didn't follow your heart. For the times you let someone else's dreams become yours. For the times you didn't listen to your intuition. Forgive yourself and follow your heart again.
Unknown
Forgive yourself for the times you didn't take action. For the times you let fear stop you. For the times you didn't believe in yourself. Forgive yourself and take action again.
Unknown
Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.
Maya Angelou
Forgive yourself for the blindness that put you in the path of those who betrayed you. Sometimes a good heart doesn't see the bad.
Unknown
Forgive yourself for accepting less than you deserved. But don't do it again.
Unknown
Forgive yourself for the times you were not gentle with yourself. For the times you said 'yes' when you wanted to say 'no'. For the times you didn't speak up. For the times you didn't take care of yourself. Forgive yourself and start again.
Unknown
Forgive yourself for the moments you forgot your worth. For the moments you let someone else define you. For the moments you let fear take over. Forgive yourself and take back your power.
Unknown
Forgive yourself for the times you didn't love yourself enough. For the times you let someone else's love define you. For the times you forgot that you are enough. Forgive yourself and love yourself fiercely.
Unknown
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
Pema Chödrön
You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.
Sophia Bush
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
Joan Didion
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
Robert Hand
Believing in yourself is the first secret to success.
Unknown
You are enough just as you are.
Meghan Markle
The only way to do something great in your life is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.
Geneen Roth
You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.
Diane von Furstenberg
Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.
Parker Palmer
Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift yourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health—body, mind, and spirit.
Laurie Buchanan
Self-care is not a luxury. It's a necessity.
Unknown
Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what's left of you.
Katie Reed
Self-care is not about self-indulgence, it's about self-preservation.
Audrey Lorde
Self-care is how we give ourselves permission to pause.
Cecilia Tran
Self-care is not a one-time event, it's a lifelong practice.
Unknown
Self-care is not a trend, it's a lifestyle.
Unknown
Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.
Christopher Germer
It takes courage to love yourself, to embrace your own power, to walk the path of your own heart.
Lauri Ann Lumby
Self-love, self-respect, self-worth: There's a reason they all start with 'self.' You can't find them in anyone else.
Unknown
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
Steve Maraboli
Self-compassion is not a luxury, it's a necessity. Without it, we cannot be fully human.
Kristin Neff
Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
Eleanor Brown
Be gentle with yourself, you're doing the best you can.
Unknown
The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.
Blake Lively
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Zig Ziglar
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.
J.M. Barrie
The only way to do something is to be confident about it.
Virat Kohli
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis
The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.
Brené Brown
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.
Brené Brown
Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.
Brené Brown
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'
Ashton Kutcher
Vulnerability is the key to happiness. Vulnerable people are authentic people. And authentic people are happy people.
Gretchen Rubin
Vulnerability is the only way we can feel when we truly share the art we've made. When we share it, when we connect, we're in the present, we're in the moment.
Brené Brown
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
Brené Brown
Vulnerability is the willingness to show up and be seen without any guarantee of outcome.
Brené Brown
Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.
Brené Brown
The only way to do something brave is to first be afraid.
Cory Booker
The only way to escape the darkness is to turn on the light.
Unknown
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A.A. Milne
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