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#1

“There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

tags: anorexia, self-esteem

1250 likes

#2

“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

tags: self-esteem, time

900 likes

#3

“If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.”
― Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty

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#4

“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: assertive, assertiveness, bravery, choices, confidence, courage, coward, daughter-of-god, dignity, disrespect, enemies, fearful, integrity, low-self-esteem, retreat, scores, self-esteem, self-respect, self-worth, silence, women

550 likes

#5

“Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.”
― Cynthia Kersey

tags: confidence, inspirational

354 likes

#6

“In the beginning, the price of giving great love is risking that it won't be returned. Until you understand, of course, that great love is always returned. With interest.”
― Mike Dooley

tags: selfless-love, true-love

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#7

“No one can replace you to do what you are destined to do until you totally fail it and leave an empty gap that God will fill.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Guiding Principles for Optimizing your God-given Talents

tags: achieve, destiny, life, purpose, vision

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#8

“Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak through a prolong period of flood. We must work our talents out and work them out skillfully and then our rainbow of excellence will show.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: ark, diligence, excellence, flood, noah, rainbow, skillful, skills

7 likes

#9

“Birds do not attend flight schools; Rivers do not attend flowing colleges; Fishes do not attend swimming conferences; Trees do not attend fruit bearing seminars... There is something that you can do automatically that someone may not do... Find it and do it! There is something someone may do automatically that you may not do; leave it for him to it!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: attend, automatically, birds, colleges, conference, conferences, counselling, fishes, flight-school, flowing, fruit-bearing, rivers, school, seminar, seminars, skills, swiming, swimming-school, talent, talents, trees, you, you-can-do-it

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#10

“It takes your knowing to decide on your going. If you know where you are going, you will keep going because you have already seen yourself gone”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: decide, decision, destination, destiny, don-t-give-up, extra, extra-mile, go, go-ahead, going, gone, high, inspirational, keep-going, know, knowing, knows, motivational, never-give-up, predestination, predestined, success, successful, successful-journey, went, yourself

12 likes

#11

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
― Robert Frost

319 likes

#12

“The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

114 likes

#13

“Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

52 likes

#14

“If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

71 likes

#15

“Two very priceless gifts that should be enjoyed often,
are the beauty of a sunset and the company of a friend.”
― Doe Zantamata

11 likes

#16

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: identity

12850 likes

#17

“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”
― Roman Payne

tags: empowerment, exploration, feminism, roman-payne, strong-women, the-wanderess, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering

1177 likes

#18

“There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.”
― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

tags: beauty, fear, growth, happiness, hate, honor, sadness, suffering, waste

463 likes

#19

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: wonder

2207 likes

#20

“Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: beauty, poetry, simplicity, wonder

74 likes

#21

“But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

tags: wise-words

357 likes

#22

“...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

tags: heart, irrevocable, leftovers, love, true-love, wise-words

91 likes

#23

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom

9132 likes

#24

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

tags: hope, imagination, inspirational

9219 likes

#25

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
― Sidney Sheldon

724 likes

#26

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: love

11957 likes

#27

“Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: be, believe, divine-living, finding-yourself, free, freedom, hide, hiding, introspection, light, look, look-inside, look-within, meditation, prayer, prophet, real, reflection, salvation, saved, see, self, self-analysis, soul-search, soul-searching

13 likes

#28

“Reach deep within, and reconnect with the essence of your being.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

tags: finding-oneself, soul-searching

12 likes

#29

“Regrets are illuminations come too late.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

396 likes

#30

“Start calling yourself healed, happy, whole, blessed, and prosperous. Stop talking to God about how big
your mountains are, and start talking to your mountains about how big your God is!”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

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