It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It's not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It's up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
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