Choosing Yourself Quotes

“Violet might wear her sparkling recklessness well, but beneath it she was careful, careful, careful. Maud was not; but she would learn to be. She would choose to be, as she chose every day to be generous and kind and all the other things that defied the coiled snake of her inherited nature.”
― Freya Marske, A Restless Truth

“Choosing yourself — when you've spent a lifetime choosing others — is the hardest decision there is.”
― Zoé Mira, I Exist. I Am Enough.: A Memoir of Love, War, and Becoming Wild Again

“may you live out your life as a spectacle. may you be true to the you in the mirror”
― Malebo Sephodi

“Healing begins when you stop romanticizing someone else’s potential and start choosing your own peace.”
― Katerina Markadakis, Legacy of Avoidance: A Journal For Those Learning To Stay When Love Feels Unsafe

“Because the people who walk away the moment you stop abandoning yourself, were never asking for your friendship.

They were asking for your sacrifice.”
― Rania Naim, Never Abandon Yourself Again : 77 Chapters On Reclaiming Your Power